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Hi! |
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>> These are the two cards I am having issues with. |
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>> Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 |
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>> Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X |
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> Seems I'm having the same problems with the latter chip. Early last year |
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> I tried to enable jumbo frames on our ProLiant ML370 and some |
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> workstations and didn't succeed. As it was just a nice-to-have I didn't |
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> investigate any further and just switched back to MTU 1500, but now this |
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> sounds very familiar. It was kernel 2.6.12-hardened or something back |
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> then, I'll check again one of these days. |
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I've expected the same issue with the former NIC (NetXtreme BCM5721) |
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while trying to increase the MTU value higher than 1500. |
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The Broadcom support confirmed that this NIC doesn't support jumbo frames :( |
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regards |
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Chris |
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