Broadcom BCM5703X causing reboot? 4.8-RC2

[Scheidell at secnap.com]

freebsd -stable IS 4.8 RC2.


""L. Jankok"" <lj at 2u2.nu> wrote in message news:<20030329123009.GA698 at atlantis.local.net>...
> Oliver,
> 
> I have said this different time on the list.
> Use FreeBSD 4.7 Stable.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:20:07PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> :Jeff Behl <jeff at expertcity.com> wrote:
> : > FreeBSD blade7-bc2.sjc 4.8-RC2 FreeBSD 4.8-RC2 #1: Wed Mar 26 20:17:42
> : > GMT 2003
> : > 
> : > i've had two reboots in the last 30 mins on a fairly heavly loaded web
> : > server (apache).  the following immediately precedes both reboots (no
> : > more messages after this):
> : > [...]
> : > any ideas or help?  these are the first blades we've put into production
> : > (IBM bladecenter)...which isn't boding well at all for using the
> : > remaining 14 blades.  the machines are only pumping out around 9Mb/s.
> :
> :I'm sorry, but I have to say that we seem to be suffering
> :from the very same problem.  :-(
> :
> :We have a bunch of Compaq DL360G2 (about 20 of them) at a
> :customer of ours, each of them has two Broadcom gigabit
> :interfaces (bge0 and bge1).  There are spontaneous reboots
> :when a machine is under high network load.  It seems to
> :happen under 4.7-Release as well.
> :
> :This is a pretty critical issue for us, because we cannot
> :easily replace those machines, nor can we plug in other
> :gigabit cards (those are 1U servers and we need the two
> :on-board interfaces).  The consequence would be that the
> :OS might have to be changed, since we haven't experienced
> :any reboots under Linux on a test machine so far.  :-(
> :
> :Any help is greatly appreciated.  I'm willing to assist in
> :whatever way necessary to resolve this issue.
> :
> :Regards
> :   Oliver
> :
> :-- 
> :Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München
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