Sunday, May 6, 2007

ESX and Broadcom BNX2 drivers (1.4.36b)

Today,
I struggle with a strange networking issue:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: vswif0: transmit timed out.

It caused by a faulty module - bnx2.
In order to somehow return it to online use the following commands:
login to console:
vmkload_mod -u bnx2
vmkload_mod bnx2

This issue affects on Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 and maybe on other cards too

Regards,
Boris Mikhailovski