This is just my personal opinion, but I've always had bad luck with Broadcom NICs. A few years ago we spent a couple million bucks on all new Dells and were plagued with machines intermittently "falling off" the network. There were no errors in the logs, diagnostics always came back clean, etc. We figured it was some bad packet traffic on the network causing machines to intermittely lose connectivity, but never found a root cause despite a detailed sniff.
We ended up disabling the Broadcoms and replacing them with Intel Pro 1000MT's on a few of the worst machines, and the problems disappeared. We then replaced all Broadcom NICs across a huge number of machines in one of our data centers. Even in brand-new Dells we replace Broadcoms with Intels at the first sign of network flakiness. The Intels have never failed us. Dell support was never able to help us track down a cause, and this happened to many dozens (if not hundreds) of machines, new and old. At least from my perspective, it's definitely a Broadcom issue. Amusingly, we recently fired up three 2650's that were in storage and immediately had the Broadcom problem crop up again. After replacing the NICs last week, no problems. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Will" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:36:46 -0400 Is this related to another thread? If so, would you provide the thread title or provide a brief summary of what you are troubleshooting? I have a 2650 dell server that I run Imail on. It has Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet. I had (may still have) an issue with nic lockups at random times requiring a reboot. A week ago, I had this happen to me five times within a day, which prompted me to up my research. Is this at all close to what your issue is? Will -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matrosity Hosting Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] dell/imail 2006 memoryleak Still no substantive solution to this problem with Imail 2006. Imail's only answer has been to replace the stock Dell NIC's. That's not an answer to me since every test shows the NIC's work with 0 errors and they also connect to a Dell switch. This was also after blaming MxGuard and anything else they could for the problem. How do you write software in today's world that doesn't play well with Dell? To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
