* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Coker) [2002.12.27 11:02]: > I'm currently working with some new Dell 2650 servers. They seem quite nice, > 2*Gig-E on the motherboard, keyboard, monitor, and USB connectors both front > and back, 5*U160 hot-swap hard drives with hardware RAID, and redundant > hot-swappable PSU's. > > The ones I've got have 73G hard drives (giving 220G of RAID-5 storage with one > hot-spare), 2* 1.8GHz P4 CPUs, and 4G of RAM. > > One problem I have is that the PCI dual-ethernet cards don't seem to function > properly. I've pasted in the dmesg output below. What happens is that they > do very slow transfers (much slower than 10baseT) and seem to eat up lots of > CPU time (can make the entire machine uselessly slow).
I had to pleasure (this servers are powerful!) of configuring a few of these a few months ago. I had the same problem under RedHat 7.3. I ended up grabbing the latest version of ethtool and messing with the setting a little. I forgot exactly what I changed that fixed it, but it's working fine now. So give ethtool a shot, but make sure you have a newer version. Thanks -- Cameron Moore / I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number \ \ of things. -- Dan Rather talking about President Clinton / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
