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
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