On 02/28/2011 03:14 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 14:22 +0100, Joerg Morbitzer wrote: >> Package: bnx2 >> Version: 2.6.32-5-amd64 >> Severity: normal >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> on my two Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) servers from HP (ProLiant DL380 G7) I have >> issues with the on-board Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit >> Ethernet adapters: they constantly drop received network packets, and the >> Cisco routing swtich 4948 is reporting pause frames coming from the >> network card during this time. >> >> I found the exact same bug report description including an upstream fix >> by David Miller here : > > I think that's a different bug. And I don't see any fix by David Miller > there.
Hi Ben, thanks for your replay. I thought there was an upstream fix due to this answer from Andy Gospodarek (Comment 30 in the Red Hat bug report). > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640026 >> >> They increased the ring buffer size as far as I understand. > [...] > > They increased the maximum allowed RX descriptor ring size. You should > first try changing the value to the current maximum yourself, with > ethtool -C. Ok, thanks for the hint with "ethtool -G", I will try to increase the RX value from 255 to the maximum of 1020. Kind regards, Joerg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6baf83.9060...@morbitzer.de
