Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
This thread has me a bit concerned, as I'm using Dell PowerEdge servers which use on-board versions of these NICs: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.5.11-rh (June 4, 2007) eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem da000000, IRQ 169, node addr 0019b9b993a7 Would they be subject to this issue as well? Sam >On Friday 14 December 2007 21:29:30 Ben Clewett wrote: > Florian and Dr J Pelan, > > I managed to get the correct software to upgrade the firmware on my > NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX network cards. > > The only thing it changed was the iSCSI, from 1.0.0 to 1.1.8. > > This seems to have fixed the problem. The load is predictable and no > DRBD locking has been seen so far. The problem seems to have been solved. > >I stand corrected. :-) > >For those of you as ignorant as I was of these particular NICs (although I >have been using them for some time), it appears after some research that all >the BCM5708 devices, whether by Broadcom or re-branded by OEMs, do support >both iSCSI and TOE in hardware, and RDMA as well. Even though the iSCSI >engine appears quite broken in its original incarnation, per Ben's >observation. > >Thank you for that insight. > >Ben, just for the record, can you give us your "lspci -nn | grep BCM5708" >please? > >Cheers, >Florian