> dmesg says:
>> eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
> found at mem ca000000, IRQ 169, node addr 001a646395ae
>> # cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> alias eth1 bnx2
Is this a Dell PowerEdge 2950? What version of the bnx2 driver
do you have:
strings `locate bnx2.ko` | grep ^version=
The version shipped with RHEL 5 at least up to kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5
is buggy and can panic with heavy transmit traffic:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242060
They've supposedly got a newer version of the driver in an upcoming
kernel update, but it doesn't seem to have been released yet.
Later,
Kenn
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