Re: Problems with ixgbe

From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:31:17 -0800
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba_at_yahoo.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to fire up a couple of 10g cards (2 different cards with 82598
> NICs) hooked up back to back, and I'm having nothing but problems. I haven't
> gotten the latest version 1.5.6 driver to work under any circumstances. I've
> gotten the 1.2.16 driver that came in 7.0-RELEASE to work once on fresh
> boots on each machine, but then when rebooting one of the machines nothing
> could be done to get them to talk again. I did do quite a bit of testing so
> it doesn't seem that the cards are faulty. Its just wholly unreliable. It
> seems that they just don't transmit the frames properly. netstat -i shows
> outgoing packets but internal hw.ix.0.stats show none transmitted when
> enabled. I've tried disabling MSI-X, using just 1 queue, all with the same
> result.
>
> I don't have a 7.1 or 8 machine to test with at this location, so I don't
> know if there is something in 7.0-RELEASE that just won't work with these
> cards. I don't want to beat my head too badly, or spend time debugging if
> its just not going to work.
>
> First, should 1.5.6 work in 7.0? The README indicates it should. It makes
> little sense debugging an old driver.
>
>
> Barney
>
>
>
>
Barney,

You never give specifics on your failures. The 1.5.6 driver should work,
however
there is newer code, I just have been too busy internally to get it checked
in yet.

Give me more exact details, what hardware, how is it hooked up, etc etc...

Jack
Received on Sun Jan 25 2009 - 20:03:27 UTC

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