It depends on the source. Ultimately, your system vendor should be able to make the recommendation. If you accept the driver with your distribution and firmware straight from the nic vendor, that could be (and in practice has been) problematic. If you acquire it from your vendor's support site, one must presume they did the appropriate validation on their end (or at least you can make them fix it).
From: Rahul Nabar <rpna...@gmail.com>
To: wer...@in2p3.fr
Cc: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: 08/30/2010 02:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Is the BMC robust to recover from system
hangs? impitool unresponsive
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Fabien Wernli <wer...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:31:40AM -0500, Rahul Nabar wrote:
>> I have version 1.9.3 of bnx2. Not sure how to get the NIC firmware
version
>> on a running system.
>
> ethtool -i ethX
Thanks!
driver: bnx2
version: 1.9.3
firmware-version: 5.0.11 NCSI 2.0.5
I'll now go and check if there is a new firmware available from Dell.
But echoing what Jarrod said: A new firmware may not necessarily be a
better firmware!
--
Rahul
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