Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-23 Thread Ciprian Vizitiu (GBIF)
Nope! But the fact is I didn't have time to fiddle with it. Last time when I tried I brought the blade server down badly with the kernel shouting at me... It never worked for me, right now all my installs use tcp transport which is heavy on the CPU. ByteEnable wrote: Did you ever get this to

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-23 Thread Ciprian Vizitiu (GBIF)
Mike Christie wrote: On 02/22/2010 04:08 PM, ByteEnable wrote: Did you ever get this to work per your satisfaction? Are you guys only having trouble with bnx2i and Equallogic targets? At least in my case it's the only target that I have. :-) Also Brocade switch between me and the Eql (if

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-22 Thread ByteEnable
Did you ever get this to work per your satisfaction? On Jan 20, 12:46 pm, Ciprian Vizitiu (GBIF) cvizi...@gbif.org wrote: Hi, Can anybody here please confirm whether iSCSI offload via bnx2i, on RHEL 5.4, with 5709 Broadcoms towards EQLs 6000 series works or not? Despite countless attempts

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Christie
On 02/22/2010 04:08 PM, ByteEnable wrote: Did you ever get this to work per your satisfaction? Are you guys only having trouble with bnx2i and Equallogic targets? On Jan 20, 12:46 pm, Ciprian Vizitiu (GBIF)cvizi...@gbif.org wrote: Hi, Can anybody here please confirm whether iSCSI

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-22 Thread Hoot, Joseph
We turn our TOE off via ethtool because we've had questionable issues and that was a first stab at troubleshooting. We have both EQL 5000 and 6000 series. I'm not sure if it was definitely the problem or not, but we just default to turning it off in rc.local. On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:16 PM,

RE: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-22 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Ciprian, Thanks for the additional information, there are a couple of notes with this offload technique. 1. The route/device CNIC will choose is based off the host routing table. (The CNIC uses the kernel function ip_route_output_key() to determine the device to use. This function can

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:20:03AM -0800, Benjamin Li wrote: Hi Ciprian, Thanks for the additional information, there are a couple of notes with this offload technique. 1. The route/device CNIC will choose is based off the host routing table. (The CNIC uses the kernel function

Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-20 Thread Ciprian Vizitiu (GBIF)
Hi, Can anybody here please confirm whether iSCSI offload via bnx2i, on RHEL 5.4, with 5709 Broadcoms towards EQLs 6000 series works or not? Despite countless attempts (and latest EQL OS update) I still can't match them (but then the software transport works perfectly). :-| -- You received

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-20 Thread Benjamin Li
Also in addition to posting the kernel log's (/var/log/messsages) please post the /var/log/brcm_iscsi.log file which is generated from the user space daemon, brcm_iscsiuio. This will give a little bit more insight on what is happening during the offload process. Thanks again. -Ben On Wed,

RE: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-20 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Ciprian, From the brcm_iscsuio logs, I didn't see any communication between the brcm_iscsiuio daemon and the CNIC driver. This is a problem because the brcm_iscsiuio daemon will do the initial ARP'ing. To further diagnose this problem, I was also wondering if you could describe your network