Comments on: IBM BNT (Nortel) Module iSCSI Boot Bug http://www.bladevault.info/2008/06/06/ibm-bnt-nortel-module-iscsi-boot-bug/ Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas for IBM and HP Blades & Servers, Virtualization Products, and Storage Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:40:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Timo Sugliani http://www.bladevault.info/2008/06/06/ibm-bnt-nortel-module-iscsi-boot-bug/#comment-339 Timo Sugliani Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:16:49 +0000 http://www.bladevault.info/?p=42#comment-339 I just came with a similar bug with Broadcom 5706 on IBM Blades under VMware but it happens also on linux/windows with old drivers and it's about auto-neg too. (For my problem, it got solved by latest broadcom drivers available). For ESX 3.0.2 the patch has just been released, but we shall still wait for a ESX 3.5/ESXi version :'( Here is the VMware KB (All Broadcom 5706 boards seems to be impacted). http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004720 For interested people I made a screencast about the issue here (WARNING: Resolution is 1920x1200 so it might eat up some memory) : http://lycos.dropcode.net/VMware/ESXBroadcomNetwork/ESXBroadcomNetwork.html I just came with a similar bug with Broadcom 5706 on IBM Blades under VMware but it happens also on linux/windows with old drivers and it’s about auto-neg too. (For my problem, it got solved by latest broadcom drivers available).

For ESX 3.0.2 the patch has just been released, but we shall still wait for a ESX 3.5/ESXi version :’(

Here is the VMware KB (All Broadcom 5706 boards seems to be impacted).
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004720

For interested people I made a screencast about the issue here (WARNING: Resolution is 1920×1200 so it might eat up some memory) : http://lycos.dropcode.net/VMware/ESXBroadcomNetwork/ESXBroadcomNetwork.html

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