Hello all,
I have come across an interesting issue with the use of the open-source
'bacula' application running on Solaris 10/08 u6 x86.  The hardware is a
Supermicro with an onboard Intel 82575 gigabit chip.

The following tests were performed on the exact  same hardware just
different OS's. When backing up a client hardware with Solaris 10/08 u6 x86
the backup fails with network error messages.   However when backing up with
Opensolaris 2008.11 it completes successfully (BTW, backups with Centos5.1
were also successful).

As a test, I took the igb driver from opensolaris 2008.11 and copied it to
the solaris10 10/08 u6 installation and performed the same backup test, the
backup then completed successfully.  For whatever reason the Opensolaris igb
driver appears to resolve this issue.  I don't know if the issue lies in the
bacula software application or the driver, or both.

My question is;  is it safe to run the Opensolaris 2008.11 igb driver in a
Solaris 10/08 u6 x86 installation as is, or does the driver need to be
compilied on Solaris 10u6?

TIA,
Dave
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