Certain x86 systems fail to plumb the fourth 5709 interface with 1 Gbyte of RAM. The system might panic or the following error message is displayed:
ifconfig: plumb: bnx<X>: Invalid argument |
This bug affects Dell PowerEdge R610 and R710 servers.
Workaround: Perform the following steps:
Use more than 1 Gbyte of RAM.
Create a hostname.bnxX for each interface.
Reboot your system.
Download and install the latest BNX driver 4.6.2.
Modify the bnx.conf file to use the default setting for tx_descriptor_count.