On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Evangelos Souglakos wrote: >> We are experiencing network problems on i/o and network loaded R710 >> Poweredge servers. Network connectivity dies after some time. >> The systems needs to be powered down to bring the NICs back to life. > > Supposedly, loading the bnx2 module with disable_msi=1 resolves this > problem. > > There is a version of the netxtreme driver available that is newer than > the one provided by RHEL/CentOS. You can get this from Dell's site. In > my experience, using this driver resolves the problem.
I have just taken delivery of a T710 w/BCM5709's, and can confirm that the disable_msi=1 trick does *not* resolve this problem; I have had the system hang while idle, 5 minutes after a cold start. Installing the netxtreme driver *does* fix the issue. Not very clever, guys. Steve _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
