Actually, you have direct support through the local Cisco team. Please contact them for help.
Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Networking Division (ND) Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com (503) 712-4565 -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Kirsher [mailto:jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 3:55 PM To: Alpesh Patel Cc: e1000-devel; Brandeburg, Jesse Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i40e driver question On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:57 -0400, Alpesh Patel wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > > I found your name from lwn.net posting. > > I am trying to use the X710 nic and am using the i40e driver > > Is that the right driver for that nic? Yes. I have added e1000-devel mailing list (as well as a couple of i40e developers) to help answer your questions. > I see a few dmesg logs (curtailed): > > on loading the driver (i40e): > i40e: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver - version > 0.4.10-k > i40e: Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 Intel Corporation. > i40e 0000:05:00.0: f4.22 a1.1 n04.26 e8000152d i40e 0000:05:00.0: MAC > address: 68:05:ca:32:fd:78 i40e 0000:05:00.0: AQ Querying DCB > configuration failed: 1 i40e 0000:05:00.0: init_pf_dcb failed: -53 > i40e 0000:05:00.0: irq 188 for MSI/MSI-X ... > i40e 0000:05:00.0: irq 233 for MSI/MSI-X i40e 0000:05:00.0: Could not > remove default MAC-VLAN i40e 0000:05:00.0: i40e_ptp_init: added PHC on > eth18 i40e 0000:05:00.0: PCI-Express: Speed 8.0GT/s Width x8 i40e > 0000:05:00.0: Features: PF-id[0] VFs: 32 VSIs: 34 QP: 28 RSS FD_ATR > FD_SB NTUPLE PTP i40e 0000:05:00.1: f4.22 a1.1 n04.26 e8000152d i40e > 0000:05:00.1: MAC address: 68:05:ca:32:fd:79 i40e 0000:05:00.1: AQ > Querying DCB configuration failed: 1 i40e 0000:05:00.1: init_pf_dcb > failed: -53 i40e 0000:05:00.1: irq 234 for MSI/MSI-X ... > > > and this happens for each of the 4 ports on this nic. I understand > that this nic uses fortville chip - with 4x10g ports on the nic. > > When I connect the port to an ixia interface, the led on ixia is not > up (it is not lighted with any color) > > I manually assigned an ip and brought the interface up - it stays up > and I am able to ping it, but that's just loopback interface ping. > > are the failures/errors in the log above harmless? > > any documentation on the driver/parameters? Any configuration or other > information that you can point me to would be helpful. > > mii-tool on these interfaces do not work > [root@ott-ss-dt-14 0000:05:00.0]# mii-tool eth18 SIOCGMIIPHY on > 'eth18' failed: Operation not supported > > any pointers you can provide? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
