[ILUG] Dump very slow across gigabit network

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:12:00PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Kenn Humborg thought:
> > 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 They've supposedly got a newer version of the driver in an upcoming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.

$ strings `locate bnx2.ko` | grep ^version=
version=1.4.44-1
version=1.4.44-1

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