On 10/11/13 16:42, Friedrich Locke wrote:
Is anyone running OBSD 5.3 on Dell R*** series servers ?
What about 10G etherner devices ? And Storage ?
Is there any concern when buying these machines ?
Thanks in advance.
I had trouble with a Dell R620 with the iDRAC and FreeBSD / OpenBSD.
There's some issue to do with the iDRAC being Broadcom and also the
other NICs.
FreeBSD 9.2 RC1 had the fix, so that was good enough for me for this
machine: http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-31769.html
I didn't keep very good notes (sorry!), but with OpenBSD 5.3 (and the
latest snap at the time) I was getting "bge0: watchdog timeout ---
resetting"
I did try turning the iDRAC NIC off, changing settings, etc., but had no
joy until I used 9.2.
Obviously YMMV, I might have missed something, the FBSD changes might
give you a clue what to do, etc. but it did give me a bit of grief at
the time.
No other obvious issues with OpenBSD(/FreeBSD) on the machine -
installed and found drives, RAM, etc. - just this NIC issue.
HTH,
Richard.
