>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Boland >Sent: dinsdag 18 mei 2010 13:23 >To: Tapas Mishra >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Dell Power Edge R710 with CentOS > >I haven't upgraded any of our boxes from 5.4 yet, but I have to say I've had >two big problems with the stock bnx2 NIC drivers from 5.4 >(for both R610s and R710s). The first problem was that the NICs would just >die randomly when under heavy load, which required a >network restart. This in particular can be resolved by adding options bnx2 >disable_msi=1 to /etc/modprobe.conf. After that, I was >finding that a box which was in production would occasionally start >intermittently losing packets/connectivity, which also required a >network restart. I couldn't resolve this without getting the latest NIC >drivers from the Dell website. > >Now I don't have any problems, but I've stopped my kernel from automatically >updating until I set the NIC driver up using DKMS. > >It's not easy to test that the problem could be fixed in RHEL/CentOS 5.5, but >I'll give it a go.
This issue is not fixed in rhel5.5, so you still need to use the bnx2 disable option. Stephan _______________________________________________ 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
