Broadcom NetXtremeII Packet Loss/PE1950

[Ben Ruset]

What sort of load are you putting on the box?

I have a fleet of 15 PE1950's all running VMWare Server. When the box 
gets under load we'll see the Broadcom nic's lose link with the switch, 
taking all of our VM's offline for a few seconds.

I'm in the midst of swapping dual port E1000's into all of the 1950's we 
have. As soon as we did that on two of our machines, the problem went away.


Matt Saladna wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Has anyone noticed sporadic packet loss with the BCM5708 NICs on Linux?
>  I have been attempting to track down the root cause, but everything is
> turning up empty.