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
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