We've got 7 of these units. On one the ethernet is dead. Some of them have qlogic cards and are serving 2-3 3TB raids. When we try to move copy large files over nfs or rcp, the machines like to lock up. We have gone from Suse 9.1 Pro to 9.2 Pro to SLES9 and nothing is staying up. Is the BCM5704C really that bad? I can't blame the OS because I just can't believe SLES9 would lock up like that. Joe Brad Dameron wrote:
Actually the 2881 has been know to have Ethernet issues. I have had to return a few because the ethernet would stop working after pushing a few hundred MB over it. But they would work at first. The above message would indicate either a delay from spanning-tree turned on your switch, auto-detect on the port not working thus setting it to something like half-duplex and the BCM trying to communicate at full duplex, bad ethernet cable (Verify link lights are on), or bad ethernet.
Have you ran "ethtool eth0" to see if you have a link, etc? Can you get us that info? Also is it loading the BCM5700 driver or the TG3?
Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com