Hi, On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Steve Thompson wrote: > 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. No Problems here with SUSE SLES10. Works just out of the box, no tricks necessary. BTW: My guess is since long (i.e. almost ever, about 15 years) that SUSE has the best kernel experts (and so, kernels). Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg ([email protected], [email protected]) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: [email protected] Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: [email protected] Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Goettingen Registergericht: Goettingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
