Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

[Steven A. Kaskinen]

The Broadcom driver from the Dell HW Repo (DKMS module) worked on
Centos/RHEL 5.0; 5.1 and 5.2 included a driver that already had the fix
in it.  It's a decent bet that the other Broadcom driver would work;
although I think the one included in 5.3 is newer than the Dell/Broadcom
provided module...you can force dkms to compile and override the
build-in if that's the case though.

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/OMSA

URL in case you haven't tried the Dell HW repo...

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Hopfgartner [mailto:peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:08 PM
> To: Steven A. Kaskinen
> Subject: Re: Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3
> 
> > Do you have TSO enabled on the bnx ports as well?  We usually
disable
> that right away as well; as its caused us all sorts of troubles;
> generally I've found the bnx2 drivers to have a pretty poor track
> record; and now I mostly resort to putting Intel NICs in our boxes.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> Ok, I disabled TSO right now. I'm curious to see if the servers keeps
> running or not. In any case, the machine loaded much on the notwork
> side, since it is mainly serving up web pages on a 2 MBit connection.
> It's more loaded by a PostgreSQL server and some XEn Vms.
> 
> In any case, you are also saying that the Broadcom driver from the
Dell
> support site solved the problem, right? Then this might be the next
> step.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter