RE: [Xen-users] XEN - Broadcom issue: survey

["Boudreau Luc" <luc.boudreau@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For my part, the problem is packet drops when transferring large files (approx 
2 gb ). Which firmware are you inquiring about ? NIC or 'server hardware' in 
general ??

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Luc Boudreau
Registrariat, Université de Montréal 


-----Message d'origine-----
De : xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Pasi Kärkkäinen
Envoyé : 13 novembre 2007 11:37
À : Ivan Porro
Cc : xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : Re: [Xen-users] XEN - Broadcom issue: survey

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Ivan Porro wrote:
> I totally agree with Luc Boudreau about this problem.
> 
> On modern branded server they ALL use Broadcom chipset... I must admit that:
> 
> a) lot of people are experiencing the problem but can tolerate it
> 
> or
> 
> b) someone already experienced this problem and solved it
> 
> Lets' approach the problem pragmatically... just start with a survey on 
> the list. ... hope we solve this issue soon.
> 

What problem are you talking about? 

Are you running latest firmware? Only problem I'm aware of, is when you are
using old firmware and network will die after a while..

-- Pasi

>     Ivan
> 
> 
> HW            Driver  Version Adapter TX-DRP  Kernel
> 
> HP DL380 G3   tg3     3.49    BCM5703X No     2.6.16-xen
> DELL PE1950   bnx2    1.5.10c BCM5708  Yes    2.6.18-xen
> HP DL380 G5   bnx2    any     BCM5708  Yes
> 
> 
> 
> P.S.
> 
> for people who may be interested in howto collect data:
> 
> 
> Driver:       lsmod |grep tg3
>               lsmod |grep bnx2
> 
> Note: you are using only the driver which produce some outuput.. :) 
> (admitting you've not compiled it statically in your kernel)
> 
> Driver version:       modinfo <type> |grep version
> Adapter:      lspci |grep BCM
> Packet drop?  netstat -i   (TX-DRP column)
> Kernel:               uname -r
> 
> so this post is not totally useless :)
> -- 
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> fax:   +39 010 353 2948
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