Sorry I missed this, but the answer I provided is still the same: you need to contact HPE directly about their hardware configuration of the part. They buy the Ethernet controller from Intel, but they have a unique configuration that allows them to differentiate their platform from others. You can't override their configurations without voiding their warranty and any support contract you have with them.
Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Datacenter Engineering Group Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com -----Original Message----- From: Pavlos Parissis [mailto:pavlos.paris...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 6:53 AM To: Fujinaka, Todd <todd.fujin...@intel.com>; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel On 4 November 2017 at 13:56, Pavlos Parissis <pavlos.paris...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/10/2017 11:14 μμ, Pavlos Parissis wrote: >> On 26/10/2017 11:01 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: >>> So let me back off that statement a little bit - the driver hands >>> off a lot of requests to the firmware. >>> >>> I've had several people look at this issue and it could be because >>> there's LLDP going on in the firmware that might need to be turned >>> off. Unfortunately, that's something that might be controlled by >>> HPe's configuration, and may or may not be an approved HPe >>> configuration. For that reason, you will have to go to HPe for confirmation >>> and for initial support. >> >> LLDP was turned off as we run lldpd daemon on our servers. >> >> Those servers run Bird (Internet Router daemon) for establishing BGP >> peering with upstream switches and we need lldp packets to arrive on >> the host as we use them for operation tasks. After the switch to this >> card, we found out that our tools stopped working and after few hours >> of troubleshooting we realized that lldp packets weren't arriving on the >> host, thus we turned off LLDP on the card by running: >> ( for command in /sys/kernel/debug/i40e/*/command; do echo "lldp >> stop" > ${command}; done ) 2>/dev/null >> >> before the start of lldpd daemon, here is the output of lldpctl, >> which implies that LLDP is turned off in the firmware: >> >> sudo lldpctl eth0 >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------- >> LLDP neighbors: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Interface: eth0, via: LLDP, RID: 2, Time: 41 days, 02:38:18 >> Chassis: >> ChassisID: mac 28:99:3a:50:05:e9 >> SysName: foobar.com >> SysDescr: Arista Networks EOS version 4.18.4F running on an Arista >> Networks DCS-7050SX-64 >> MgmtIP: x.x.x.x <<-- Replaced real IP >> Capability: Bridge, on >> Capability: Router, on >> Port: >> PortID: ifname Ethernet3 >> PortDescr: Not received >> MFS: 9236 >> VLAN: 6, pvid: yes >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------- >> >> >> >> Thanks for the update, any assistance it is very much appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> Pavlos >> > > > Do you have any update about this issue? > > Cheers, > Pavlos > Any updates? Has anyone looked at the above problem? Cheers, Pavlos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
