Re: [Xen-users] xen without xenbr0

["Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Alexander Hoßdorf
<xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you're running a Dell PowerEdge you have a Broadcom ethernet Adapter,
> right?
> Are you using the bnx2 module?
>
> I had the same issues using debian.
> There is a bug in this driver, that freezes the driver when used with xen.

What is a use case that makes it freeze?

Could it be specific to 32bit?

I've haven't (yet) seem any problems on 64 bit.

We are using the drivers that come with 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen + CentOS 5.2

Cheers,
Todd



> The newest version which you can download from broadcom fixes this.
>
> What version of bnx2 do you have?
>
> Might this perhaps be your problem?
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
>
> Jia Rao schrieb:
>>
>> Unfortunately, the eth0 starts to fail sometimes when xend is started
>> (better than the previous NIC driver, with previous one, eth0 fails even
>> without starting xend, and I can not see xenbr0). Right now, there are
>> xenbr0 and xenbr1 in ifconfig -a.
>>
>> I am trying to disable the management firmware in the NIC now...
>>
>> Jia.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Jia Rao <rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>    I am running Xen 3.1 compiled from source and REHL 4.5 shipped
>>    with Dell PowerEdge 1950 III.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx
>>    <mailto:deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>        On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Jia Rao <rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx
>>        <mailto:rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>        > We got the PowerEdge III Boxes a month ago.
>>        >
>>
>>  http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround
>>        is the
>>        > solution I found. However I did not have any CD with me, so
>>        I tried to
>>        > upgrade the NIC driver first as indicated by the following
>>        link in Citrix
>>        > forum
>>        >
>>        http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151786&tstart=0
>>        <http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151786&tstart=0>
>>        >
>>        > I worked for me, but some guys in Citrix forum said it still
>>        has some
>>        > problems after one week running.
>>        >
>>
>>        What version of Xen and distro are you running?
>>
>>
>>        --
>>        Todd Deshane
>>        http://todddeshane.net
>>        check out our book: http://runningxen.com
>>
>>
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