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  • bnx2 fault caused network link to go down/up

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    HI,

     

    Description of problem:
    A problem with the bnx2 driver caused the link to go down/up.

    Version-Release number of selected component:

    HP Proliant BL460c G6 .
    Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10-Gigabit PCIe
    Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) 
    kernel: 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
    modinfo bnx2:
    filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko
    firmware:       bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw
    firmware:       bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw
    firmware:       bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw
    firmware:       bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw
    firmware:       bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
    version:        2.2.1
    pcie_aspm=off is currently being passed to the kernel at boot time.
    
    network configuration:Bonding with VLAN Tagging
    
    Inizial crash log
    kernel: do_IRQ: 8.228 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
     Nov 9 17:58:37 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
     Nov 9 17:58:37 kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog+0x26d/0x280() (Tainted: G W --------------- )
     Nov 9 17:58:37 kernel: Hardware name: ProLiant BL460c G6
    
    Server is part of a cluster. The NIC went down/up, just long enough for it to think that another server in the cluster was down, so it proceeded to fence it causing an outage.
    the problem occurs more frequently!!!
    The NIC went down/up, just long enough for it to think that another server in the cluster was down, so it proceeded to fence it causing an outage.
    

     

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