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
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