Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi Florian,
This is the result you asked for:
# lspci -nn | grep BCM5708
0f:00.0 Ethernet controller [Class 0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:16ac] (rev 12)
Also, this the output from the HP firmware upgrade tool listing firmware
versions:
# ./CP008244.scexe -c eth3
MAC PCI-ID NIC
001A4B502016 14E4-16AC-103C-703D HP NC373F PCIe Multifunction Gig Server
Adapter
(Installed) (Available) Interface
Image Version Image Version eth3
----------------------------------------------------------------------
BC 1.9.6 BC 1.9.6
iSCSI 1.1.8 iSCSI 1.1.8
PXE 2.8.5
Now I look at this I can see my upgrade has disabled PXE. I don't know
if this is significant....?
Thanks again for all your help.
Ben
Florian Haas wrote:
> 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
>
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