On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:55:21PM -0600, Greg Barniskis wrote: > On our Dell PE2950 units, we had to do the same thing (disable and > replace the Broadcom interfaces), and that was running Windows > Server 2k3. The problem really seems to be flakiness of the chips or > firmware, not necessarily flakiness in the drivers for FreeBSD. > Maybe it's both, I don't know. > > My point is that Broadcom cards have had some serious problems on > other platforms too, and not just recently. Other NIC brands have > never given us nearly as much trouble.
Sounds like I'm going to have to purchase a dual NIC card and install it in our server, then disable the onboard Broadcom NICs. Amusingly, I'll point out that on all newer Supermicro boards (Intel chipset-based), Supermicro is using Intel NICs and PHYs, and no longer Broadcom. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
