On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > > Paul, I was never able to solve the link up/link down problems > > with the driver....I was using the drivers from STABLE for a > > while, and without jumbo frames everything worked somewhat ok > > most of the time....the ultimate solution was to just get the > > intel PCI-X card and stop using the broadcoms. > > Ouch! So even updating to the latest driver doesn't solve the link > state issue? I don't use jumbo frames, but it's critical that this > server remain in service 24/7, so I don't want to upgrade if > there's no improvement in that issue. Switching to the Intel card > would be a bit of a PITA on a remote, rack-mount server. :-(
I was running the driver from STABLE until about March and it would bounce the link up and down a couple times a day even under relatively moderate load. (50-60 mbps) So perhaps there have been improvements since then, but I gave up dealing with it. The driver was utterly broken in 6.1-R (0.9.5), by the time 6.2-R was getting rolled the driver in STABLE would at least not tip over under TCP load, but it was trivial to wedge it with even moderate amounts of UDP. I eventually reached the conclusion (correct or not) that you can't fix crap hardware with a driver. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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