Gary Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:31:41AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote:
Julian Elischer wrote:
Tom Judge wrote:
Josh Paetzel wrote:
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote:
Hi Paul,
From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months
the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and
there is a light-moderate network load.
However if you want to use Jumbo frames the driver is very
unstable. I posted a patch against 6.2 which should fix some load
based issues in the driver with standard frame sizes.
Tom
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.
We have basically come to the same conclusion today, unfortunately
this is 35 machines, but if it makes them stable at least we can use
them.
I'm not seeing any problems on our 2950s running 6.1 plus some backpatches.
I am very surprised at that. The driver in 6.1 was un-usable in our
environment. 6.2 makes it usable with standard frames under moderate
load. However use jumbo frames and it all falls apart, and unfortunately
the network these systems are plugged into is GigE only with a 8192
Jumbo mtu.
I wouldn't be surprised if you were running different rev motherboards.
Although the Dell chassis/model number is the same, they frequently rev
the motherboard without any externally visible changes. I'd be more
surprised if you had the same mobo part number and PCI ID's for the
Broadcom chips.
Gary
I have systems with 2 different revisions of the broadcom chip on them,
both revisions have show the same symptoms. Please see my posts in
thread "Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950)" you will find
full details of the chip revisions that I have tested with.
Tom
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