Do I need to have any driver for network to go before I erase every thing and do a fresh install of CentOS on my server.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Stephan van Hienen <[email protected]> wrote: >>-----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 > -- Tapas _______________________________________________ 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
