Hi, I've been experiencing occassional network time-outs with the Intel Gigabit nic's (e1000) in Poweredge systems. I'm not sure if it's a hard or software problem but it occurs on different systems with Centos 4.2 and 4.3 and was wondering if there' s a workaround available like compiling an updated e1000 module or something. kind regards, Geert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060625/73cba9c0/attachment-0002.html>
> I've been experiencing occassional network time-outs with the Intel Gigabit > nic's (e1000) in Poweredge systems. > I'm not sure if it's a hard or software problem but it occurs on different > systems with Centos 4.2 and 4.3 and was wondering if there' s a workaround > available like compiling an updated e1000 module or something.I'd start by checking to make sure that the system is fully updated (bios, OS etc) and then check out linux.dell.com for driver packages, updates and things of that nature. -- This message has been double ROT13 encoded for security. Anyone other than the intended recipient attempting to decode this message will be in violation of the DMCA
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 at 2:49pm, Geert Batsleer wrote> I've been experiencing occassional network time-outs with the Intel Gigabit > nic's (e1000) in Poweredge systems. > > I'm not sure if it's a hard or software problem but it occurs on different > systems with Centos 4.2 and 4.3 and was wondering if there' s a workaround > available like compiling an updated e1000 module or something.There are a *lot* of tunables in the e1000 module. Look in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.9/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt for a list and descriptions. I'd start there. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Long ago, I managed a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 1U systems running Fedora Core 1. The built-in driver worked for a while, but died after a few hours of heavy burn-in. It was a consistent failure that was fixed by downloading and compiling the driver from Intel (as linked to from within the Dell support boards) Once that was done, it worked a champ - but then I had to recompile the driver every time a kernel update came out. Big pain, glad I don't work there anymore. -Ben On Sunday 25 June 2006 05:49, Geert Batsleer wrote:> Hi, > > I've been experiencing occassional network time-outs with the Intel Gigabit > nic's (e1000) in Poweredge systems. > > I'm not sure if it's a hard or software problem but it occurs on different > systems with Centos 4.2 and 4.3 and was wondering if there' s a workaround > available like compiling an updated e1000 module or something. > > kind regards, > > Geert > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >-- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978