Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Ethan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:32:32 GMT

I concur, it's a year later and these Broadcom NICs are still just awful. I learned a lesson from these things, ALWAYS upgrade to the Intel NICs when you purchase a Dell.

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

John — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:03:35 GMT

Confirmed here too. Dell Poweredge 2950 with Broadcom NICs, SBS R2. Numerous network problems. No software fix whatsoever worked. Had to physically pull the TOE 2 adapter. Problem solved.

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Tai — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:33:35 GMT

you guys are the bomb, fixed mine with this command on the host server.

netsh int ip set chimney DISABLED

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Soonersby50 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:59:56 GMT

Sounds like the Receive Side Scaling issue to me..If you want to use your TOE license/key in the future for offloading features then you may need to apply these and disable the RSS feature:

You may experience network-related problems after you install Windows Server 2003 SP2 or the Scalable Networking Pack on a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer

support.microsoft.com/.../en-us

You cannot host TCP connections when Receive Side Scaling is enabled in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2

support.microsoft.com/.../en-us

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re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Ahmed — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:23:22 GMT

Had the same problem yesterday. Was determined to find a better fix than uninstalling sp2 for windows 2003.

I posted it on my blog with a couple of photos that could help.

It fixed my problem and I confirmed the solution with Dell

www.it-etc.com/.../vmware-host-and-guest-cannot-communicate-over-network-shares-on-dell-poweredge-and-broadcom-toe

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Greg — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:54:08 GMT

We had major problems with the TOE where we had a 64bit server with VM Ware on it. The VM's wouldn't communicate with the host and vica versa. Disabled the TOE and all problems resolved.

Cheers,

Greg

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

pie8ter — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:21:47 GMT

A lesson learned. I wish I've seen these blogs before we purchased three Poweredge 2950s with broadcom. We are having ton of problems with the Broadcom.

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Ingram Leedy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:45 GMT

We've fought the same issue, infact, Windows Server 2003 SP2 included SNP (scalable network pack) which re-enabled TOE if you have previosly disabled.,

Just disable it TOE at command prompt,

netsh int ip set chimney DISABLED

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Mike — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:22:00 GMT

Thanks for the tip on the "Receive-side Scaling". I have been having problems with this for almost 2 weeks. I had tried the new drivers from Broadcom, which didn't fix my issue. Tried the firmware updates, didn't help, completely re-installed SBS, which worked, right until I put ISA back on.

Now with disabling the Receive-side Scaling, I can remove workstations from the domain and re-add them successfully.

Thanks Victor.

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

NickWhittome — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:00:41 GMT

Hi Victor, I believe that this does not fix 100% of the issues. But thanks for your feedback.

I believe Broadcom recently updated the drivers on the site again, but I am not sure if it fixes things.

Also, the Microsoft article on the subject is being worked on and made clearer.

re: Broadcom TOE, Dell, ISA 2004 and my headache....

Victor — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:43:47 GMT

Hi Nick,

I´m a Server support analyst at Dell.

This evening I had a case of ISA malfunction with Broadcom Nics.

I didn´t finish the torubleshoot with my customer yet, but at first it seems the issue is related to "Receive-side Scaling", not to TOE. You can try by disabling it in the Broadcom Driver properties.

I hope it helps you.

Regards