[Gllug] CentOS release 5.4 (Final) + Nic Bonding + machine goes out of network randomly + 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 #1 SMP kernel

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On 24 November 2010 12:32, Gustav Maskowitz <gus.maskowitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm new, first post, yadda yadda..
> Narender
> In my experience with the bnx2 driver on RedHat and thus Centos you need to
> disable MSI since in my testing DELL R710's use to randomly disconnect from
> the network when MSI is not disabled. Add the follwoing and reload the bnx2
> module. Some say you need to reboot, but see what works. I can't test it now
> sorry.
>

I ran into some rather strange problems with Dell R710 NIC cards.
Upgrading to the latest NIC firmware from Dell seems to have fixed my
problems. So if you are having problems with a Dell box, try this
possible fix.

Kind Regards

James
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