R710 nics woes (RHEL 5)

[Thomas_Chenault at Dell.com]

Sam Flory wrote:
> Has anyone seen this?  While testing new systems I have observed that
> the 3rd on board ethernet stops working after days of moderate network
> load testing.  

I have not seen this personally, but I am interested in knowing more
about the problem. I would like to know:

	1. exactly what the test scenario entails.
	2. whether or not the problem can be reproduced with the NIC
drivers
	   from support.dell.com.
	3. whether or not the problem occurs if the bnx2 module is
loaded with
	   the disable_msi=1 option.
	4. the iDRAC settings for the options "iDRAC6 LAN" and "NIC
Selection".


Thomas