[email protected] wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Ton Damen
>> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:40 AM
>> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
>> Subject: Getting iscsi offload on a M610 to work
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get offload iscsi (rhel 5.5) to work on a PowerEdge M610
>> and bnx2i.
>> The thing is that I get it to work through the normal tcp/ip stack but
>> not by specifying an iface which suppose to do offload iscsi.
>> The discovery step works, but as I understood, this goes through the
>> normal ip routing. The login step however just hangs.
>> Here are some configuration details:
>>
>> # lspci:
>> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709S
>> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
>> 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709S
>> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
>>
>>
>> # ifconfig eth1
>> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:B9:FD:41:42
>>           inet addr:172.16.17.19  Bcast:172.16.17.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>           inet6 addr: fe80::226:b9ff:fefd:4142/64 Scope:Link
>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:604 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>           RX bytes:141966 (138.6 KiB)  TX bytes:8996 (8.7 KiB)
>>           Interrupt:24 Memory:dc000000-dc012800
>>
>> # iscsiadm -m iface
>> default tcp,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>
>> iser iser,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>
>> bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:41 bnx2i,00:26:b9:fd:41:41,172.16.17.21,<empty>,<empty>
>> bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43 bnx2i,00:26:b9:fd:41:43,172.16.17.20,<empty>,<empty>
>> bnx2i.00:00:00:00:00:00 bnx2i,00:00:00:00:00:00,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>
>>
>> # iscsiadm -m iface -I bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43
>> # BEGIN RECORD 2.0-871
>> iface.iscsi_ifacename = bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43
>> iface.net_ifacename = <empty>
>> iface.ipaddress = 172.16.17.20
>> iface.hwaddress = 00:26:b9:fd:41:43
>> iface.transport_name = bnx2i
>> iface.initiatorname = <empty>
>> # END RECORD
>>
>> Then running:
>>
>> # iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 172.16.17.243 -I bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43
>> 172.16.17.243:3260,1 iqn.2002-10.com.infortrend:raid.sn7740362.101
>> #
>>
>> and
>>
>> # iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2002-10.com.infortrend:raid.sn7740362.101 --login
>> Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43, target:
>> iqn.2002-10.com.infortrend:raid.sn7740362.101, portal: 172.16.17.243,3260]
>>
>>     
>
> Do you have an offload key plugged into the motherboard. If not you might see 
> offload not supported messages in /var/log/messages..
>   
Broadcom NetXtreme II CNIC Driver cnic v2.1.0 (Oct 10, 2009)
cnic: Added CNIC device: eth0
cnic: Added CNIC device: eth1
Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI Driver bnx2i v2.1.0 (Dec 06, 2009)
iscsi: registered transport (bnx2i)
scsi1 : Broadcom Offload iSCSI Initiator
scsi2 : Broadcom Offload iSCSI Initiator
iscsi: registered transport (tcp)
iscsi: registered transport (iser)
iscsi: registered transport (be2iscsi)

> Also see if you can restart iscsid. ( The difference is that iscsid reloads 
> the bnx2i driver.)
>   
No luck. I'm afraid. A reboot hangs also because it tries to login to 
the target over this bnx2i interface
Ton



-- 
A.C.M. Damen
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NIKHEF - Dutch National Institute for Sub-atomic Physics
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Tel. +3125925121

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