Pardon my banter, after drinking some more coffee and waking up, I think
I pretty much answered my own question....
In this case, "not supported" MOST likely means not currently enabled
I return you to a better program already in progress.....
David
On 08/19/2010 03:03 PM, David wrote:
> 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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