broadcom network cards kernel panics

[Kilian CAVALOTTI]

Hi Bas,

On Monday 19 January 2009 10:36:16 Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> Our 1950 servers with broadcom network cards sometimes crashes with:
> {{{
> EIP: bnx2_poll_work
> }}}
>
> bnx2 module version:
> {{{
> Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.8.1 (Oct 7, 2008)
> }}}

There's a newer version at Broadcom (1.8.2b), which packs a new firmware. It 
may be worth the upgrade. I had a *lot* of kernel panics with earlier versions 
on PE1950s, under high traffic load. At the time, I found out that the Dell 
provided version (1.7.1c) was stable enough for our usage, but I guess that 
YMMV...

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian