[Xen-users] Re: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 bnx2 bridging

[Mike Freemon <mfreemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry about that.  We had to rename that machine.  The new URL is:

<http://wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround>http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround

Coincidentally, the outage for the weekly backups is happening right 
now.  The link should work again in a couple of hours.
- Mike



At 11/11/2006 11:55 AM  Saturday, Chu, Sam wrote:

> I am having the same problem. But, I cannot access to the following link 
> for solution
> <http://wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround>http://wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround 
>
> Can someone send me the content of this link?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pete,
>
> This may be relevant:
>
> <http://wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround>http://wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround 
>
> - Mike
>
> At 8/18/2006 09:40 AM  Friday, Peter McEvoy wrote:
> Hi, I've run into the same issue as:
>
> <http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-07/msg00599.html>http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-07/msg00599.html 
>
> In that, running the network bridge script kills networking completely, 
> trying to ping the gateway gives me destination host unreachable.
> The card is:
>
> 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)
> Using the bnx2 module:
>
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.16-2-xen-686/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko 
> version:        1.4.31 license:        GPL description:    Broadcom 
> NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708 Driver author:         Michael Chan 
> <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> srcversion:     E70D1EF4482674DE649B19D 
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016ACsv*sd*bc*sc*i* 
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016AAsv*sd*bc*sc*i* 
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d000016AAsv0000103Csd00003102bc*sc*i* 
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Csv*sd*bc*sc*i* 
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv*sd*bc*sc*i* 
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv0000103Csd00003106bc*sc*i* 
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000164Asv0000103Csd00003101bc*sc*i* 
> depends: vermagic:       2.6.16-2-xen-686 SMP 686 gcc-4.0 
> parm:           disable_msi:Disable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) (int)
> from the debian xen kernel:
>
> Linux xen 2.6.16-2-xen-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 16 01:42:25 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> In a dell poweredge 1950
>
> If I swap eth0 from the broadcom to a usb ethernet card using the rtl8150 
> driver, the bridging works immediately.
> I'm using the debian sid xen packages xen-utils 3.0.2+hg9697-2
>
> I've put a tcpdump prepared for ethereal from the xen dom0 here:
>
> <http://www.yerma.org/~pete/temp/xen/dom0>http://www.yerma.org/~pete/temp/xen/dom0 
>
> And one from the gateway here:
>
> <http://www.yerma.org/~pete/temp/xen/gateway>http://www.yerma.org/~pete/temp/xen/gateway 
>
> Obviously I can work around this using the usb ethernet card, but I'd 
> prefer to use the gigabit nics that I've paid for.
> Thanks.
>
> -- Pete

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