> The 5704 has a particularly crappy DMA controller. This might be the usual > problems of the bge hardware. Not only does it support only one DMA transfer > in parallel, it also jams for some times, and if it has a particularly bad > day, it jams the bus, too. > > There might be a description on how to work around this bug in the Broadcom > errata documents, but I don't think I have access to them. > > Tonnerre
Thanks Tonnerre, So, basically all we can do is just avoid the 5704s, right? It sucks that dell servers comes with it. Another question then... The new HP hardware we are getting comes with embedded BCM5708s (bnx). Does, this NIC have any problem we should know about? Cheers, g.
