Intel Intel Intel Intel. Really, use Intel.
On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 01:50 -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > > On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The watchdog (atleast thats what > > > the system log called it) on my WAN interface reset the WAN interface (any > > > idea why that would have happened?) > > > > various reasons. I have some Broadcom gig NIC's (bge) onboard on Dell > > 2550 servers that like to do this periodically for no apparent reason. > > Takes the NIC down for a minute or two, and only happens maybe once a > > week if that, which isn't a big deal for these particular servers so I > > haven't taken the time to look into it much yet. Seems to be a driver > > bug from the initial research I've done. The best I've found in most > > situations is people saying "well, I gave up and dumped the bge card > > for an Intel and it's working fine". Found one account of somebody > > that had access to the source code for the Windows driver and talked > > about how there were so many work arounds in it for bge hardware > > issues it wasn't even funny. They seem to be solid on Windows though, > > so I don't know... > > > > anyway...What kind of NIC is it? > > I'll give you one guess. :/ (hint: you just talked about it in the > previous paragraph) > > > as for the rest, I'll leave that to somebody who knows about the CARP > > implementation. > > > > -cmb > >
