not sure about these NICs precisely
but in general avoid using Broadcom NICs on production servers
i would rather plug another intel PCIe to make sure all is stable and under
control
2011/12/6 Steve LePage <[email protected]>
> I have found some more information on this issue…****
>
> ** **
>
> Here are the adaptors and chipsets:****
>
> ** **
>
> 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)****
>
> 02:02.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)****
>
> 0a:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (Copper) (rev 01)****
>
> 0a:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (Copper) (rev 01)****
>
> ** **
>
> The intel ones are on a pci card and work fine the on board Broadcom ones
> don’t work. They can be configured but have the problems previously stated.
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Steve LePage [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:23 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Zenloadbalancer-support] Interface issue****
>
> ** **
>
> I have my public interface eth0 setup with a public IP and have a default
> gateway setup e.g.:****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Eth0: 200.1.1.10/27****
>
> GW 200.1.1.1/27 (default GW)****
>
> ** **
>
> And this all works including the gui and I can add farms to it.****
>
> ** **
>
> Eth0/1 are on board and 2/3 are an Intel GE PCI adaptor which the linux
> system and zen see.****
>
> I tried to setup an additional ip so I could have my farm traffic come in
> one adaptor and go out another to maximize throughput so I set Eth1:****
>
> ** **
>
> Eth1:200.1.1.11/27****
>
> (No GW set so it should use default)****
>
> ** **
>
> The hopes here is I can bind a farm to the .11 and have packets coming in
> to .11 and going out the default gw on eth0. The problem I have is Zen
> states that when I setup eth1 with any IP address on any subnet that there
> is no link detected. From the cmd line I ran ethool on the adaptor and here
> are the results:****
>
> ** **
>
> -interface not setup in zen (ethtool reports link detected on eth1)****
>
> -interface setup in zen (ethtool reports link down now but if I run
> ethtool in –t, test mode it sees the link and I can remotely ping the ip
> binded to eth1)****
>
> ** **
>
> I checked and tried different ip’s including internal and its not an ip
> conflict.****
>
> ** **
>
> Regardless if I can ping it or not zen always sees the link as down****
>
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