Dell PowerEdge 2800 - Manual

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Updating Your NIC Teaming Drivers
This document provides information about resolving Intel
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NIC teaming issues.
Driver Issues When Running the Dynamic Link Aggregation on any Operating System
Intel NIC drivers, family driver version 7.1, may fail when running 802.3ad Dynamic Link
Aggregation on some switches. To correct this issue, download updated drivers from the Dell™
Support website at support.dell.com.
Driver Issues When Running the Microsoft
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Windows
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2000 Server Operating System
Intel NIC drivers, family driver version 7.0 and 7.1, iansw2k.sys file version 6.25, may fail to
initialize when a system with a configured team is rebooted, or when a team is modified or
reinitialized. To correct this issue, download updated drivers from the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com.
Driver Issues When Running the Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux Operating System
Intel NIC drivers, version 7.1, ians file versions 2.4.12d and 2.4.12g, may cause a kernel panic when
Dell Online diagnostic memory tests are run in a loop. This only occurs when you are running the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 2.1) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 3) operating system.
To correct this issue, download updated drivers from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
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July 2004