Network problems with 1950 and Xen

[Ronan Mullally]

Hi,

I've run into problems with a 1950 that I'm trying to run Xen on.
Once xend starts and creates its bridges the dom0 looses network access
(inbound traffic isn't seen).

I've done a bit of digging and it looks like it's a firmware problem on
the Broadcom ethernet cards - see:

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

This page mentions that there was a fix due from Dell at the end of last
year, but as far as I'm aware all the firmware on my box is up to date and
I'm still running into the problem.

Has the fix yet to be released by Dell?


-Ronan