Re: Dell PE2900 and Broadcom NICs

I had several follow up calls from Dell regarding this problem. Dell
suggested disabling TOE on hardware level to see what difference it makes.
Unfortunately I am not in position to do any more research on server which
is now in production. As soon as I installed Intel NICs server went in and
50 people are using it for most of 24 hours day.
At the time of installation I did try various driver revisions with TOE on
and off. At one stage I was certain I had it sorted out. But an hour later I
saw so many tcp connections fail it wasn't funny.

I will be installing another PE2900 soon. If time allows I will get Dell
support to help me monitor situation. We will see how it goes (just in case
I have Intel dual NIC waiting to be plugged in) :-)
--
Jan Wakulicz
www.micropol.com.au


"Rasman" <Rasman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3AF6EC07-4A8D-42BD-8415-5516BE1A8C2E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Are you using TOE?

"Jan" wrote:

Does anyone know if there is resolution for the "ISA-Broadcom NICs"
problem
yet?
Should I bother getting Dell on site to troubleshoot or simply install
Intel
NIC and cut my loses?
TIA.
--
Jan Wakulicz
www.micropol.com.au





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