Re: [Xen-users] Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 bnx2 bridging problem

[Mike Freemon <mfreemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

This may be relevant:

http://wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround

- Mike


At 8/18/2006 09:40 AM  Friday, Peter McEvoy wrote:
> Hi,
> I've run into the same issue as:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-07/msg00599.html
>
> In that, running the network bridge script kills networking completely,
> trying to ping the gateway gives me destination host unreachable.
>
> The card is:
>
> 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)
>
> Using the bnx2 module:
>
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.16-2-xen-686/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko
> version:        1.4.31
> license:        GPL
> description:    Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708 Driver
> author:         Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> srcversion:     E70D1EF4482674DE649B19D
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016ACsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016AAsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016AAsv0000103Csd00003102bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv0000103Csd00003106bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv0000103Csd00003101bc*sc*i*
> depends:
> vermagic:       2.6.16-2-xen-686 SMP 686 gcc-4.0
> parm:           disable_msi:Disable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI)
> (int)
>
> from the debian xen kernel:
>
> Linux xen 2.6.16-2-xen-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 16 01:42:25 UTC 2006 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> In a dell poweredge 1950
>
> If I swap eth0 from the broadcom to a usb ethernet card using the
> rtl8150 driver, the bridging works immediately.
>
> I'm using the debian sid xen packages xen-utils 3.0.2+hg9697-2
>
> I've put a tcpdump prepared for ethereal from the xen dom0 here:
>
> http://www.yerma.org/~pete/temp/xen/dom0
>
> And one from the gateway here:
>
> http://www.yerma.org/~pete/temp/xen/gateway
>
> Obviously I can work around this using the usb ethernet card, but I'd
> prefer to use the gigabit nics that I've paid for.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Pete
>
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