Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters, NetXtreme II Family of Adapters, v.16.0.0, A00
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Linux driver update to 16.0.0 for NetXtreme I and NetXtreme II devices
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Fixes & Enhancements
RH5.5 ===== 1. Kernel panic when changing MTU after heavy iSCSI offload stress. 2. Establishing an iSCSI offload connection to an Equal Logic target, does not succeed always, across reboots. 3. Intermittent connectivity loss when using 5709/5716 with MSI-X interrupts. 4. iSCSI offload - Running ifup/ifdown may cause loss of connection to disks or segfault.
SLES11 SP1 ========== 1. Kernel panic when changing MTU after heavy iSCSI offload stress. 2. Establishing an iSCSI offload connection to an Equal Logic target, does not succeed always, across reboots. 3. Intermittent connectivity loss when using 5709/5716 with MSI-X interrupts. 4. iSCSI offload - Running ifup/ifdown may cause loss of connection to disks or segfault.
SLES10 Sp2/Sp3 ==============
These drivers do not support iSCSI offload theses driver must not be loaded on systems with SLES10 SP2/SP2. iSCSI offload will not be functional after the upgrade.
1. Ethtool may report an incorrect link status when the device is disabled. 2. Running self test in ethtool may cause connectivity to the iDRAC via the management firmware to terminate. 3. There is no inbox iSCSI HBA provided in this distribution. 4. Sessions may not recover after running adapter self test on a tagged VLAN port with max sessions connected on the NetXtreme II 1 Gb device. 5. Small packet performance on a 5708 device is lower than the current drivers. 6. Changing the MTU to enable Jumbo Frames on an active adapter may result in a kernel panic.
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