Not supported by CentOS/RHEL or...?
The adapters are Broadcom 5709 which are capable of hardware
offload/iSCSI HBA, though it isn't currently enabled (no key).
Trying to rationalize why bnx2i is being invoked if hardware offload
isn't supported.
David
On 08/19/2010 02:44 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
> On 19 August 2010 20:39, David<david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Getting "bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0" for all the NIC adapters
>> on all of my R710's running CentOS 5.5.
>>
>> Here is an sample of the error messages:
>>
>> bonding: Warning: either miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target module
>> parameters must be specified, otherwise bonding will not detect link
>> failures! see bonding.txt for details.
>> bonding: bond0: setting mode to active-backup (1).
>> bonding: bond0: Setting MII monitoring interval to 500.
>> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready
>> bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth0.
>> bnx2: eth0: using MSIX
>> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0
>> bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with a down link.
>> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0
>> bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth2.
>> bnx2: eth2: using MSIX
>> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth2
>> bnx2: eth0 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
>> bonding: bond0: enslaving eth2 as a backup interface with a down link.
>> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth2
>> bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0.
>> bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.
>> bonding: bond0: first active interface up!
>> bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth2.
>> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
>> bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth2, disabling it
>> bnx2: eth2 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
>> bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth2.
>> bond0: no IPv6 routers present
>>
>>
>> Understanding that bnx2i is used for hardware iscsi, why is this error
>> occurring?
>>
>> David
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> This was asked 2 or 3 days ago ... it refers to hardware offloading
> isn't supported I believe.
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