Hi, The latest qlogic drivers(7.07.05 and 8.01.05) do support IP over FC for the 2 Gig Cards (so it should work in your case). The driver is not stable for the 4 Gig cards yet, and if you want to use a 4Gig card for IPFC, you may have to wait a bit longer. The 2 gig cards work pretty fine with this driver and I'd recommend that you try it out. -Shyam On 9/9/06, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to establish the status of IPFC (IP over Fibre Channel) for the qla2xxx driver (and the QLA2312 chip in my specific deployment). Researching it, I see that there were some patchsets way back in the 2.4.20 days (http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/patches/diff-2.4.20-pa31), but I find nothing modern, nor any record of why it was ripped out. The kernel and -scsi mailing list archives don't even mention IPFC. This is maybe a question better directed at the network mailing lists, but I'm reasonably certain that Ravi Anand and some of the others from Qlogic hang out here. I'm not after IPFC for high bandwidth, just the ability to check connectivity without having the HBA binary libraries (my test platform has them available, but I don't have that luxury further down the line). While I'm at it, how's the IP support for other cards? I'm already committed to Qlogic here, but I'd appreciate it for future design choices. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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