Re: [Xen-devel] Network stops responding after some time

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:33:01AM -0500, Adnan Khaleel wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm using the Suse Enterprise 10 RC2 along with Xen 3.0.2 on X86-64 and I'm 
> experiencing a problem with the network.
> I boot into the Xen kernel and everything works just fine. I can browse the 
> net etc.
> However after a while the network stops responding completely. I am not sure 
> what causes this to happen or what triggers it. After a few hours, the 
> network just stops working.
> 

I had lots of network problems with IBM blades. Network would work OK
without xen, but with xen (=bridging) the network would stop/crash sooner or
later.. 

The problem was fixed by updating the NIC (broadcom tg3) firmware.

-- Pasi
       
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