05-19-2005 04:45 AM - edited 03-02-2019 10:50 PM
I have a customer that is trying to use the Broadcom Netxtreme Gigabit Ethernet NIC connected to various Cisco switches (2950T, 3550 24 etc) running at 100MBit/sec. When both the NIC and the switch are set to 100FD the link works for upto 2 days but then fails. The only way seems to set the link to auto but this can give unpredictable results. Does anyone have any experience with these cards?
05-19-2005 04:51 AM
Hi,
Is it on a blade chassis?
I have used many of these cards without any issues mainly to Catalyst 3750 and 6500 switches.
Have you got the latest firmware applied to your blade centre?
Rgds
Paddy
05-19-2005 06:25 AM
Currently the customer has only tried these NICs to their access switches ie 2950Ts and 3550s.
05-19-2005 06:49 AM
Can you please tell me which servers you are using and also the FRU number for the cards.
Thanks,
Charbel
IBM
05-20-2005 07:21 AM
Charbel, the info that I have from the customer is :-
This is a desktop issue with the Broadcom netxtreme gigabit 570x series
adaptor in the s51-31g thinkcenter desktop.
We are using windowas xp service pack 1 and driver version 7.44.0.0 we
get mrxsmb failures and netlogon problems where it appears the card has
not initialised when the user logs on.
Two of the Catalyst switches that these workstations are connected to are :-
sh ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C3550 Software (C3550-I9Q3L2-M), Version 12.1(22)EA1a, RELEASE SOFTWARE
(fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 20-Aug-04 00:30 by yenanh
Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x006C5C6C
ROM: Bootstrap program is C3550 boot loader
SHWD-E001 uptime is 5 days, 2 hours, 50 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 10:12:11 BST Sun May 15 2005
System image file is "flash:/c3550-i9q3l2-mz.121-22.EA1a.bin"
cisco WS-C3550-24-PWR (PowerPC) processor (revision G0) with 65526K/8192K bytes
of memory.
Processor board ID CAT0825N22G
Last reset from warm-reset
Running Layer2/3 Switching Image
Ethernet-controller 1 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces
Ethernet-controller 2 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces
Ethernet-controller 3 has 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface
Ethernet-controller 4 has 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface
24 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.
384K bytes of flash-simulated non-volatile configuration memory.
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:11:92:31:BF:80
Motherboard assembly number: 73-8100-08
Power supply part number: 341-0029-03
Motherboard serial number: CAT08230EH4
Power supply serial number: DTH08201ZWA
Model revision number: G0
Motherboard revision number: A0
Model number: WS-C3550-24PWR-SMI
System serial number: CAT0825N22G
and :-
sh ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C3500XL Software (C3500XL-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5)WC5a, RELEASE SOFTWA
RE (fc2)
Copyright (c) 1986-2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 30-Aug-02 10:52 by antonino
Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x0034AE30
ROM: Bootstrap program is C3500XL boot loader
LEIC-E006 uptime is 2 weeks, 5 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 08:57:53 UTC Sun May 1 2005
System image file is "flash:c3500xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC5a.bin"
cisco WS-C3524-PWR-XL (PowerPC403) processor (revision 0x01) with 8192K/1024K by
tes of memory.
Processor board ID CAT0649Z0LQ, with hardware revision 0x00
Last reset from power-on
Processor is running Enterprise Edition Software
Cluster command switch capable
Cluster member switch capable
24 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
32K bytes of flash-simulated non-volatile configuration memory.
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:0B:5F:F6:69:40
Motherboard assembly number: 73-4033-08
Power supply part number: 34-0968-02
Motherboard serial number: CAT06490BX5
Power supply serial number: DTH06480GX6
Model revision number: F0
Motherboard revision number: B0
Model number: WS-C3524-PWR-XL-EN
Daughterboard serial number: CAT064804T9
System serial number: CAT0649Z0LQ
Configuration register is 0xF
Regards
Andy Prescott.
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