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Troubleshooting NIC Logs by NETDEV WATCHDOG

I have a CentOS 6.6 server (Linux 2.6.32-504) running on a brand new Dell PowerEdge R320. Just the other day, I began noticing problems in /var/log/messages related to one of my NICs. Note: this is a server cluster that requires eth0 to be used in a…
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How do I troubleshoot slow NIC on R610 Dell?

I recently set up 2 new R610 servers that I purchased. Summary: Both servers 100% same hardware Both installed with Centos 6.7 64bit Tested multiple switch ports, same slowness issue. Both same full duplex / 100mbit speed BIOS 6.4.0 One server is…
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Broadcom NICs, Cisco ASA and ARP request collisions

First of all I am sorry for my english mistakes. Help me please to solve the problem with ARP request collision incidents. I have IBM BladeCenter E chasis with blade servers are installed in this chassis. At the rear side of chassis there are two…
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iSCSI Storage with Broadcom BCM5709 Offload in XenServer 6.2

I'm in a process of migration from ESXi to XenServer. But we can't add our iSCSI Storage via Hardware HBA in XenServer 6.2. I've tried to manually load bnx2i and cnic modules via modprobe but it has no effects and the LUN's does not appear in the…
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How do I add a new driver to the debian installer in Debian Squeeze?

I am using a 10GB Broadcom NetExtreme II card in a supermicro system. As it turns out the Wheezy version of this driver has a nasty bug in it that has a race condition that causes the driver to panic dump (and sometimes kernel panic). I downlaoded…
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how to disable MSI on tg3 driver?

got some new HP DL380p G8 for Centos. What's the correct options to disable MSI for the onboard Broadcom NICs? I tried disable_msi in modprobe.conf.local and it doesn't work. Thanks Will
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Can't set NIC speed to 10Gbps using ethtool

We're using IBM Blade Center HS-22 servers with Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gbps NICs to a Nortel 10Gbps switch. With one of the chassis the NICs can establish a 10G rate with the command "ethtool eth2 speed 10000 duplex full autoneg off", but the same…
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Mssql Server looses connection to domain; cannot access any shares until reboot

Server is Windows 2008R2. MSSQl Server 2008 is installed. 4 Broadcom Network Cards (3 active, 1 standbye) We had two time the same issue: Suddenly we cannot access any network shares on other servers. I'm seeing the following error in the…
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Broadcom NIC stays down in iPXE

I'm repurposing some old servers as budget compute farm diskless nodes and am trying to get iPXE to do iSCSI boot on an HP DL145 G3 which has an embedded Broadcom NetXtreme 5715 dual-ported NIC. After too many headaches with other solutions I…
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Broadcom Teamed Connections Fails if One NIC is Disconnected, Why?

I have a cluster of servers that are all running either with BCM5716C NetXtreme II cards or BCM5709C NetXtreme II cards. All servers have their cards teamed by the BACS3 software as: Smart Load Balancing and Failover No standby members No live…
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Broadcom BCM5709C Jumbo Frames on Windows 2008R2

I have a broadcom bcm5709c quad port nic (gigabit netxtreme II); I download the broadcom utility from there site, I can setup teaming and all, but I can't seem to find the setting to enable jumbo frames at all ? Can you please assist or provide some…
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HP NC382i: Network controller failed to exchange interface with the bus driver

This morning we had an odd problem on a server running hyper-v. It was the second time we've seen the exact same problem int he last 6 months and I am a bit mystified as to the cause. The physical host and the virtual machines cease having access to…
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Mysteriously dropped packets

I have server with Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5706 Gigabit Ethernet chips, and 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 kernel from Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga). During normal work day this machine gets ~ 40000 packets per second (it's…
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Missing Jumbo and MTU for Broadcom NIC?

I have two Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE NICs in my Dell Windows SBS 2008 server. I would like make one them them Jumbo Frames enabled so that I can add it to my SAN whose VLAN on the switch is already using 9000 MTU. Broadcom's own data…
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How to ensure SAS-3 wide port configuration is enabled?

I have: A commodity Linux server, in this I have installed: 1x HBA storage adapter Broadcom (LSI) 9500-8e having 2x mini-SAS-HD connector, connected to: 1x Storage enclosure with dual input mini-SAS-HD connector, SAS-3 capable, using: 2x…
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