bce(4) on the Dell PE 2950

[Sean Bruno]

A note from clusteradm at freebsd.org 

It looks like there is some amount of instability or bugginess in some
of the Broadcom firmware(management) on the bce(4) chipeset shipped on
later generations of the Poweredge 2950 from Dell:

bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)>

Specifically, we've seen that newer (9 and higher) have issues with the
doing initial setup and negotiation and that Dell did indeed release
newer firmware to fix the issues.  This requires a full reboot into
Linux (probably centos6) to get the update to execute.

Sean
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