BNX2/Network breaks at normal output on SSH client (eg. 'top', 'ps faxww')

[JaccoH]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.20-8-server

Install Ubuntu Edgy on Dell PowerEdge 2950 with BNX2 NICs. Install SSH and access it. Use a command like TOP or PS FAXWW.
In my case this will crash the network operations of this server.

Work around:
Edit rc.local and add the line:
rmmod bnx2 && /etc/init.d/networking stop && modprobe bnx2 && /etc/init.d/networking start && /etc/init.d/ssh restart

This solves the issue. With out this line it will break BNX2/Network.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers edgy
  APT policy: (700, 'edgy'), (650, 'feisty'), (500, 'edgy-updates'), (500, 'edgy-security'), (500, 'edgy-backports')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-8-server
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Can you attach the output of lspci -vnn > dmesg.txt.

Thanks
chuck

[JaccoH (jacco)]

There you go.

[JaccoH (jacco)]

Some extra info:

Ive tried using bonding on this set of NICs (2 BNX2) and this is even worse. Ping get DUPs and then like 50% packet loss etc. Or crashes.. etc.

[JaccoH (jacco)]

per request... lspci -vvv

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

Hi, I think Chuck meant to ask you to do lspci >lspci.txt and dmesg >dmesg.txt but just mashed his thoughts together. Can you please reproduce this crash (by running top or ps, etc.) and run "dmesg >dmesg.txt" after the problem has occured. Could you please then attach this dmesg.txt to the bug which should help us track where or why the error is occuring. Additionally could you attach the output of "sudo ethtool -k eth0" where "eth0" is whichever the problematic network device is.

Thanks!
  Kyle

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.