Lost Connections

[jman9322]

Every once in a while the computers around here will lose connection with the server for like a second. not very long at all but today on my machine I have lost connection about 4 times so far. any ideas where to start looking?

Thank you,
Jason

 

[NickFerrar]

This has started happening on one our of PowerEdge 2600 servers recently. It drops all share type connections for a short time but a ping still works.

Still haven't figured out the cause yet - only thing that changed was we updated the ESM and PERC firmware as per an alert from Dell about data loss on certain PERC firmware revisions. I can't see how the ESM would screw up the NIC though even if it is on-board.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the NIC drivers which seemed to help for a week but the problem has returned (happens a couple of times a day, unfortunately it's on a heavily used server). It seems a lack of resource issue of some sort choking the server so it cuts off the network (although not at a low level else ping would stop to). Still a mystery though

We've moved it to a different switch and changed cables etc and the problem persists so I'm fairly sure it's a local server issue.

 

[FarOut]

If you have the embedded Broadcom NIC's that would be a good place to start looking. Broadcom does have a new driver out for these cards, v6.6. We were having problems with the Gigabit embedded NIC's dropping connections on our 2650's. We had to temporarily go to Intel NIC's until we got the problem solved with Broadcom.

FarOut
V-Peace-V

 

[jman9322]

We have a PowerEdge 1600SC. When you added that new driver did you have to restart the server?

Thank you,
Jason

 

[FarOut]

If it was me I would restart the server. Just a quirk I have when I make changes to our servers.

FarOut
V-Peace-V

 

[jman9322]

I have updated the drivers on the server and even replaced the switch, any other ideas?

Thank you,
Jason

Thank you,
Jason