broadcom network cards kernel panics

[Bas van der Vlies]

Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
> 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,

Hi Kilian,

 Thanks for the info ;-)

Regards


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