1655MC dropping the network

[Matthew Schlosser]

My bad.

Debian stable/sarge with all updates.  Will go Etch or even unstable if I
need to. I updated the driver manually when this came up the first time.
Debian ships v3.10, Broadcom provided 3.66d so I upgraded it.  No change.  I
can roll about 50% of the expected load on to the system and get great
performance, but it flakes out at higher volumes.

I can push heavy bandwidth via TCP with no problems.  I'm trying to find a
good DNS load tester to see if there is a specific threashold at which it
flakes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Ben Scott
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:18 PM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: 1655MC dropping the network
> 
> On 1/8/07, Matthew Schlosser <mschlosser at eschelon.com> wrote:
> > Linux kernel 2.6.8
> > Tg3 NIC driver from Broadcom, compiled and installed as a module
> 
>   Distribution?  Release?  Is that 2.6.8 vanilla, or the
> distribubtion's?  If distribution, are you current on updates?
> 
>   I know the Tigon 3 chips, especially early ones, had hardware bugs
> that were later worked around in the device driver.
> 
> -- Ben
> 
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