Issues with broadcom 10Gb SFP+ pci-e cards

TwiX

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Feb 3, 2015
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Hi,

We are currently experiencing issues with Broadcom cards. (Dell R440)

proxmox-ve: 5.2-2 (running kernel: 4.15.18-8-pve)
pve-manager: 5.2-10 (running version: 5.2-10/6f892b40)
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.2-11
pve-kernel-4.15.18-8-pve: 4.15.18-28
pve-kernel-4.15.18-7-pve: 4.15.18-27
pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve: 4.15.17-9
ceph: 12.2.8-pve1
corosync: 2.4.2-pve5
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-2
libpve-access-control: 5.0-8
libpve-apiclient-perl: 2.0-5
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-41
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-18
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-30
libqb0: 1.0.1-1
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve6
lxc-pve: 3.0.2+pve1-3
lxcfs: 3.0.2-2
novnc-pve: 1.0.0-2
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 1.0-20
pve-cluster: 5.0-30
pve-container: 2.0-29
pve-docs: 5.2-9
pve-firewall: 3.0-14
pve-firmware: 2.0-6
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-5
pve-i18n: 1.0-6
pve-libspice-server1: 0.14.1-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.12.1-1
pve-xtermjs: 1.0-5
qemu-server: 5.0-38
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
spiceterm: 3.0-5
vncterm: 1.5-3
zfsutils-linux: 0.7.11-pve2~bpo1

Code:
5e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited BCM57416 NetXtreme-E 10GBase-T RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
5e:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited BCM57416 NetXtreme-E 10GBase-T RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
af:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
af:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller (rev 01)

Module bnxt_en randomly crashes on boot (or few sec after boot).

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The only solution to fix it is to put power off few minutes and boot again.
(https://www.dell.com/community/Powe...en-module-crashes-on-14G-servers/td-p/6031769)

No problem with BCM57810 => bnx2x module, but these cards are no longer compatible with new R440.

So, I have two questions :

- Maybe some of you guys have ever seen this bug and fix it ?
- If I have to replace BCM574XX for another model, could you tell me a model that should be fully compliant with proxmox v5.2 ? Intel X710 for example ?

Thanks in advanced !

Antoine
 

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