On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:00:58AM -0800, PJF wrote: > Greetings, > > On our new R410, randomly when eth0 is pushing more than 30Mbps of traffic > the interface sometimes times out and shuts off: > > Dec 15 07:53:59 web1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > Dec 15 07:53:59 web1 kernel: bnx2: eth0 NIC Copper Link is Down > > We are running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 > > Cat6 has been replaced, tried different ports on the switch, made no > difference. > > This morning I found this post suggesting adding "options bnx2 disable_msi=1 > in /etc/modprobe.conf" > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3832
As a follow-up, this has been root caused, and a kernel patch is now accepted upstream. Kudos to the Dell Linux Engineering team for staying on this, getting to ultimate root cause, and driving a valid workaround into the community. http://bit.ly/axXbpa -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO _______________________________________________ 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
