There is a known issue with the BroadCom BCM5708C series on WS2008R2, in particular when using Hyper-V. Whether you do or do not use virtualization, you might try this and see if your problems recurr.
Disable LSO (Large Send Offload).
Go to the properties of each NIC (manage network connections, right click, hit 'Properties').
Broadcom sent me the latest NIC drivers and Teaming software which seems to have resolved the issue but i also implemented LSO disabling as per your post.
This is just a me too Win2k8R2 on a 2950 started BSOD'ing. After looking at the minidmp in Windbg I saw basp.sys. First thing I came across in Google was this post. I updated the BASP and NIC drivers, hopefully resolving it. If it rears up again I will try turning off that option, or if all else fails, disable teaming and remove BASP altogether.
OS server 2008 R2 Dell T-710 server Broadcom network adapters
I was able to stop the BSOD with my network adapter. Was getting BSOD with error pointing the the broadcom network driver and tcpip.sys. Despite updating to the most recent driver, I continued to get random BSOD. Searched all over, found one reference on dell support. Recommended disabling LSO and/or turning off chimney offload. I did both. Now NO BSOD. SOLVED.
Hopefully there will be and updated driver at some point from broadcom/qlogic.
Credit to original poster. >> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/1466/t/19307750.aspx
lowjim
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March 9th, 2010 07:00
Did you get a fix for this issue as i'm having it also on 3 PE2950 servers with 2008 R2 x64?
Cheers.
gbtech
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March 13th, 2010 23:00
There is a known issue with the BroadCom BCM5708C series on WS2008R2, in particular when using Hyper-V. Whether you do or do not use virtualization, you might try this and see if your problems recurr.
Disable LSO (Large Send Offload).
Go to the properties of each NIC (manage network connections, right click, hit 'Properties').
Click 'Configure', then 'Advanced'.
Look for LSO, select it, the select 'Disable'.
Remember to do this for each NIC in the server.
Reboot. Let me know if this has any affect.
lowjim
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March 16th, 2010 06:00
Broadcom sent me the latest NIC drivers and Teaming software which seems to have resolved the issue but i also implemented LSO disabling as per your post.
thanks,
Jim.
mwalkertx320
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May 19th, 2010 11:00
Is your problem still fixed? What version of the Broadcom drivers did they send you?
Thanks!!
Matt
lowjim
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May 20th, 2010 01:00
The issue was resolved with the new drivers. Device Manager is showing this for the 2 NIC's I have in the server::
Driver Date: 17/12/2009
Driver Version: 5.2.14.0
If you will be using the teaming software it is showing this for the BASP Virtual Adapter:
Driver Date: 10/02/2010
Driver Version: 1.3.16.0
Hope this helps,
Jim.
Sailboat37
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September 22nd, 2010 14:00
This is just a me too Win2k8R2 on a 2950 started BSOD'ing. After looking at the minidmp in Windbg I saw basp.sys. First thing I came across in Google was this post. I updated the BASP and NIC drivers, hopefully resolving it. If it rears up again I will try turning off that option, or if all else fails, disable teaming and remove BASP altogether.
rojafer
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October 26th, 2010 11:00
I had this same problem. After contacting DELL support, they recomended to disable the TCP Chimney Offload
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951037
To disable TCP Chimney Offload, follow these steps:
After doing so, server has been working fine.
Regards
mwalshe2000
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April 18th, 2013 10:00
All,
I
was having the exact same issue. I disabled the TCP Chimney offload, and
thought it didn't make any difference.
I held off rebooting and then five minutes later, the server started acting
normally. "Maybe" it took some minutes to close all its connections.
Best of luck.
Michael
rsmbbdad
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August 17th, 2014 09:00
OS server 2008 R2
Dell T-710 server
Broadcom network adapters
I was able to stop the BSOD with my network adapter. Was getting BSOD with error pointing the the broadcom network driver and tcpip.sys. Despite updating to the most recent driver, I continued to get random BSOD. Searched all over, found one reference on dell support. Recommended disabling LSO and/or turning off chimney offload. I did both. Now NO BSOD. SOLVED.
Hopefully there will be and updated driver at some point from broadcom/qlogic.
Credit to original poster. >> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/1466/t/19307750.aspx
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