Thanks for the response.. I think that's it!
I think I'll disable the on board Broadcom Nic in the bios and put a piece
of tape over it and use the other port I'm not using from the Intel GB Nic
card that I had Dell add and see how it goes :)
JD
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:16, Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
> Hey JD,
>
> Howareya?
>
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> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:07 AM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone on the list have experience with SMEServer?
>> I'm trying to get a new instance going and it keeps dropping the bridged
>> network from eth0->eth1
>> where it won't route traffic. It did the same thing when I was running it
>> virtualized on the same box under Proxmox (now it's running native).
>> Restarting the network 'fixes' it for awhile. I'm not sure if it's a bug in
>> SMEServer or if it's a quirk of the hardware on this Dell Poweredge T110
>> server.
>>
>> JD
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> SMEServer is based on CentOs/Fedora/Redhat.
>
> udev will reassign the network card from one device to another, or from one
> interface to another if it has issues negotiating.
>
> This is commonly seen with Dell PowerEdge servers running broadcom ethernet
> cards.
> Check your firmware and card versions against your kernel driver to verify
> conditions and consider adding:
>
> 1) udev hammered down ethernet configuration options
>
> http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm (I know this is not Debian, but udev
> is udev!)
>
> 2) change from/to autonegotiate (sensitive from some switches) to hammered
> down settings:
>
> Autoneg and switch optimization:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/106160/should-network-hardware-be-set-to-autonegotiate-speeds-or-fixed-speeds
>
> "eth-tool -s"
>
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-change-the-speed-and-duplex-settings-of-an-ethernet-card/
>
> Broadcom Information on neg:
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/faq_drivers.php
>
> 3) static configuration options in Network Manager:
>
> These can be manipulated as well, with routing information, ifup conditions
> and other tricks:
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/
>
> Hope this helps!
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