Questions tagged [broadcom]
Topics related to Broadcom hardware such as Ethernet Network Interface Cards
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Server 2008 R2 NIC in "Unidentified Network" state after connectivity loss is restored
I am having trouble with 2 servers, both with the same symptoms. When they are reconnected to the switch after losing connectivity, they stay in an "unidentified network" state. Only after cycling the ...
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All disks show as Unconfigured Bad (UBAD) on RAID controller
Before starting, I will say I would appreciate help but really I need to hear from someone that has experienced this issue and how they solved it because the obvious and go to solutions are not ...
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Trying to boot a diskless server to Windows 2012 using iSCSI and Differencing VHDs
We are in the middle of a big VMware to Hyper-V migration at the moment. Part of this process is going to be changing some of our existing ESXi servers to Hyper-V. These ESXi servers don't have hard ...
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VMware - Broadcom 1000Gbps NIC does not link at 100Mbps to a Cisco switch port
Today we've stumbled on a very awkward situation with our VMWare Server.
The server is with ESX 3.5 that has a 1Gbps NIC.
We bought a brand new managed Cisco Linksys switch with 10/100Mbps interface ...
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How to ensure SAS-3 wide port configuration is enabled?
I have:
A commodity Linux server, in this I have installed:
1x HBA storage adapter Broadcom (LSI) 9500-8e having 2x mini-SAS-HD connector, connected to:
1x Storage enclosure with dual input mini-SAS-...
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NIC ports going offline just by touching the cables slightly
A while ago we discovered an issue with most of our NICs in the data center - touching the cables just leads to the ports of the NICs going offline for a couple of seconds. All the NICs are Broadcom ...
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Broadcom QLogic 57800 shows up as two adapters in ESXi 6
I don't have another quad card as a reference, but the Broadcom QLogic 57800 is a 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE quad card, which has sequential MACs and same PCI slot, but shows up as two dual adapters in ESXi ...
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ipSystemStatsOutDiscards increments, but not the interface specific counters?
Here's an odd one. I noticed that one of my nameservers was complaining about some outbound congestion, and that it seemed to correlate incrementing interface discards on my outbound path. Open and ...
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How do I troubleshoot slow NIC on R610 Dell?
I recently set up 2 new R610 servers that I purchased.
Summary:
Both servers 100% same hardware
Both installed with Centos 6.7 64bit
Tested multiple switch ports, same slowness issue.
Both same full ...
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Broadcom NICs, Cisco ASA and ARP request collisions
First of all I am sorry for my english mistakes.
Help me please to solve the problem with ARP request collision incidents.
I have IBM BladeCenter E chasis with blade servers are installed in this ...
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How do I add a new driver to the debian installer in Debian Squeeze?
I am using a 10GB Broadcom NetExtreme II card in a supermicro system. As it turns out the Wheezy version of this driver has a nasty bug in it that has a race condition that causes the driver to panic ...
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how to disable MSI on tg3 driver?
got some new HP DL380p G8 for Centos.
What's the correct options to disable MSI for the onboard Broadcom NICs?
I tried disable_msi in modprobe.conf.local and it doesn't work.
Thanks
Will
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Mssql Server looses connection to domain; cannot access any shares until reboot
Server is Windows 2008R2.
MSSQl Server 2008 is installed.
4 Broadcom Network Cards (3 active, 1 standbye)
We had two time the same issue:
Suddenly we cannot access any network shares on other ...
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HP NC382i: Network controller failed to exchange interface with the bus driver
This morning we had an odd problem on a server running hyper-v. It was the second time we've seen the exact same problem int he last 6 months and I am a bit mystified as to the cause.
The physical ...
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Broadcom Teamed Connections Fails if One NIC is Disconnected, Why?
I have a cluster of servers that are all running either with BCM5716C NetXtreme II cards or BCM5709C NetXtreme II cards. All servers have their cards teamed by the BACS3 software as:
Smart Load ...
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Broadcom BCM5720 Debian Bookworm
I have a problem on a Lenovo SR650 server. I installed Debian 12, with kernel 6.1.0-15 and all firmware packages for the Broadcom BCM5720 network interface. The interfaces are recognized but there is ...
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Broadcom storcli64 - add unconfigured good disk as hotspare
as a disclaimer, I am not particularly well versed with storcli so please bare with me.
I have an existing RAID configuration that I took over from a colleague who since left.
One disk failed and I ...
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Checking if NIC controller has SR-iov capability
I'm trying to use SR-IOV with openstack, and in order to check if the NIC available on my servers support this technolony I did the following:
(venv) [root@controller share]# lshw -c network -businfo
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Broadcom's NetXtreme II 5709 on Ubuntu 16.10 4.10 kernel fails w/ code model kernel does not support PIC mode
Is there a way to work with the patch suggested here to get this to work? I downloaded the latest drivers from QLogic (who bought Broadcomm). Their support reply was:
As of April 13, 2015 we must ...
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Dell M620 Xenserver network issue
I've got a really strange problem running Xenserver 7.0 (tried 7.1 as well) on a Dell M620 with BCM57810 network card.
The whole setup is fine and running flawlessly with no traffic. I've got a ...
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CentOS - Raid Speed Below Single Disk
I'm encountering some odd behavior and wondering if anyone has ideas what would be causing it.
Setup:
2x 2.4GHz Opteron quad cores, 8GB RAM, 2x 500GB 7200 RPM SATA2 drives, with Clean minimal CentOS ...
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Dell Poweredge 860 with CentOS eth0 link is down. Trying to configure a static IP
I decided to recycle an old server, Dell Poweredge 860 Service Tag: B21N5F1, that had vyatta (a what use to be open-source firewall os) firewall installed on it. I went ahead and did a clean install ...
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Broadcom iSCSI HBAs missing in vSphere
I've got 4 Cisco UCS C210 M2 servers, each with a Broadcom NetXtreame II BCM5709 Quad-port adapter in it. They are all running vSphere 5.1 U1.
On one the servers, the Broadcom ports show up as both ...
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Need some clarification on a NIC functionality on a Dell Poweredge r610
Quick question. I'm trying to understand the NIC functionality of this server. NIC specs from manual:
My question is, do the two broadcom controller chips provide fail-over redundancy? For example, ...