[DRBD-user] DRBD serious locking due to TOE - RESULT

Mark Watts m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com
Mon Dec 17 12:11:59 CET 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Friday 14 December 2007 21:30:03 Art Age Software wrote:
> 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?

Why take the risk - pop the lid and pull out the little blue TOE keys on the 
left hand side of the server.

Mark.

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Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ Trusted Information Management
Trusted Solutions and Services Group
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