Hello,

Well I've changed the network card (10Gbit bnx2x or be2net) by a less
powerfull one (Gigabit bnx2)  and it works very well.

Thank you for your time.

Regards



2011/10/1 Jesse Gross <[email protected]>

> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Benoit ML <[email protected]> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > 2011/10/1 Jesse Gross <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Benoit ML <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hey,
> >> > Thank for the answer.  I'have the same matter with bnx2x on rhel6.1
> ...
> >> > In the H3C documentation there is a subject about vlan (thank to
> Leland)
> >> > :
> >> > "The default VLAN IDs of the Trunk ports on the local and peer devices
> >> > must be the same. Otherwise, packets cannot be transmitted properly."
> >> > What did you think about that ?
> >>
> >> Do you have a default vlan configured on the switch that is the same
> >> as the one you are trying to use?  If so, that would explain the
> >> problem because it will cause the packets to be sent untagged on the
> >> assumption that the remote switch will interprete them as the same
> >> vlan.
> >>
> >> You could try creating a vlan with vconfig to see if it recognizes the
> >> tagged traffic.
> >>
> >
> > The native vlan (pvid) of the trunk port of the H3C switch is 99. The
> switch
> > can also carry tagged vlan 2 and 3702.
> > The openvswitch  port is configured like this : add-port br0 eth4
> > trunk=[0,2,3702], to carry untagged traffic and to carry vlan tagged  to
> the
> > switch.
> > I've tested with the vlan system (vconfig)  : works juste fine.
>
> OK, sounds like it really is a driver issue.
>
> >>
> >> > From your point of view what will be the best manner to have the thing
> >> > works
> >> > ?  I've tested the last driver be2net from Emulex without  success ...
> >> > Eventually I can use another linux distribution ?
> >>
> >> Assuming that the physical switch is configured correctly, the
> >> situation is improving with newer kernels and should be resolved for
> >> all devices when Linux 3.1 is released.  A distribution such as Ubuntu
> >> that is more aggressive about tracking kernel releases will likely
> >> have better results.
> >
> >
> > Do you think that a 2.6.38 (ubuntu or fedora) or a 2.6.40 (fedora
> updates)
> > could be ok ?
> > For my personnel information, what are the majors difference between now
> and
> > 3.1 ? The way how vlan are handle ?
>
> There's new vlan infrastructure in 2.6.37/38 and then drivers needed
> to be converted over to use it, which was completed for 3.1.  Some
> drivers also worked around it on their own before the new
> infrastructure.  So basically the more recent the kernel, the more
> likely it is work properly.
>



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