Re: [Xen-users] XEN - Broadcom issue: survey

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:40:09AM -0500, Boudreau Luc wrote:
> For my part, the problem is packet drops when transferring large files 
> (approx 2 gb ). Which firmware are you inquiring about ? NIC or 'server 
> hardware' in general ??
> 

NIC firmware.

broadcom NIC's are known to have bad firmware in many servers.. ibm and dell
at least, maybe hp too.. 

upgrading to new (bugfixed) firmware solved these problems.

Then again I don't know if this is your problem.. might very well be.. 

-- Pasi

> ______________________________________________________
> 
> Luc Boudreau
> Registrariat, Université de Montréal 
> 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Pasi Kärkkäinen
> Envoyé : 13 novembre 2007 11:37
> À : Ivan Porro
> Cc : xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : Re: [Xen-users] XEN - Broadcom issue: survey
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Ivan Porro wrote:
> > I totally agree with Luc Boudreau about this problem.
> > 
> > On modern branded server they ALL use Broadcom chipset... I must admit that:
> > 
> > a) lot of people are experiencing the problem but can tolerate it
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > b) someone already experienced this problem and solved it
> > 
> > Lets' approach the problem pragmatically... just start with a survey on 
> > the list. ... hope we solve this issue soon.
> > 
> 
> What problem are you talking about? 
> 
> Are you running latest firmware? Only problem I'm aware of, is when you are
> using old firmware and network will die after a while..
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> >     Ivan
> > 
> > 
> > HW          Driver  Version Adapter TX-DRP  Kernel
> > 
> > HP DL380 G3 tg3     3.49    BCM5703X No     2.6.16-xen
> > DELL PE1950 bnx2    1.5.10c BCM5708  Yes    2.6.18-xen
> > HP DL380 G5 bnx2    any     BCM5708  Yes
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > P.S.
> > 
> > for people who may be interested in howto collect data:
> > 
> > 
> > Driver:     lsmod |grep tg3
> >             lsmod |grep bnx2
> > 
> > Note: you are using only the driver which produce some outuput.. :) 
> > (admitting you've not compiled it statically in your kernel)
> > 
> > Driver version:     modinfo <type> |grep version
> > Adapter:    lspci |grep BCM
> > Packet drop?        netstat -i   (TX-DRP column)
> > Kernel:             uname -r
> > 
> > so this post is not totally useless :)
> > -- 
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> > fax:   +39 010 353 2948
> > 

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