Re: case sensitivity of hardware addresses & vlan configs

2010-11-03 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Anish, For the current the Broadcom solution using VLAN's, we currently have the use the standard Linux tool, vconfig to create a VLAN interface. This doesn't give much flexability, so we are working on a solution to utlize the existing "iface.subnet_mask" and "iface.vlan" fields so that users

Re: Connection faillure RHEL 5.5 bnx2i

2010-09-03 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Michael, My responses are below: On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:51 -0700, Mike Christie wrote: > On 09/03/2010 10:06 AM, Michael Wolf wrote: > > Sep 3 16:47:35 ora-db-rac1-04 iscsid: Received iferror -1 > > Sep 3 16:47:35 ora-db-rac1-04 iscsid: cannot make a connection to > > 10.10.77.10:3260 (-1,

Re: Centos 5.4 bnx2i iscsi woes

2010-07-16 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Tarun, It looks like from the logs that eth0 is not iSCSI licensed but eth4 is =) In addition, I was also wondering if you could also post the following: 1. The routing table of the machine. Currently CNIC uses the L2 routine table to determine which port on the NIC to send requests to. 2.

Re: Centos 5.4 bnx2i iscsi woes

2010-07-12 Thread Benjamin Li
And I still get this error. Any ideas? I've reverted > iscsi-initiator as well.. > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Mike Christie > wrote: > On 06/10/2010 08:30 PM, Benjamin Li wrote: >

Re: Centos 5.4 bnx2i iscsi woes

2010-06-10 Thread Benjamin Li
ork restart would be a > workaround. I'm not seeing that work for me. > > > Thank you, > Tarun > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Benjamin Li > wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I don't have a version of brcm_iscsiuio which I have re

Re: Centos 5.4 bnx2i iscsi woes

2010-05-24 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Mike, I don't have a version of brcm_iscsiuio which I have readily avaliable for 5.5.z which has the fix you are looking for without adding new features. I will need to create a version of brcm_iscsiuio with the iscsid/brcm_iscsiuio backported for 5.5.z. When does this need to be accomplished

Re: Open-iscsi with bnx2i driver, current status ?

2010-05-21 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi All, < /me hangs head in shame =) > This is correct, in the upstream release of the open-scsi there is no Broadcom offload support for your device BCM5709. Last year there was some effort gathered to merge the uIP daemon into iscsid to order to provide an upstream solution; but, this has been

Using IFACE_SUBNET_MASK and IFACE_VLAN

2010-03-08 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Mike, I was wondering about your thoughts on using on IFACE_SUBNET_MASK and IFACE_VLAN definitions in the iface file. In version 0.5.6 of uIP we have started to add VLAN support; but, with the current iface file only one VLAN is supported at a time per each iSCSI offloaded interface. This is b

RE: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-22 Thread Benjamin Li
in another > > > window, pings just flow nicely. Sometimes (apparently depending on > > > planets position) the connection just works... but only for SOME of > > > the drives; yet, hard as I tried, I couldn't establish a rule. :-o > > > Again, switching to

RE: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-20 Thread Benjamin Li
. :-o Again, switching to plain tcp > transport (even with jumbos) works very well. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com [mailto:open-is...@googlegroups.com] > > On Behalf Of Benjamin Li > > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-01-20 Thread Benjamin Li
Also in addition to posting the kernel log's (/var/log/messsages) please post the /var/log/brcm_iscsi.log file which is generated from the user space daemon, brcm_iscsiuio. This will give a little bit more insight on what is happening during the offload process. Thanks again. -Ben On Wed, 2010-

Re: iSCSI Connection failure with bnx2i transport

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Li
Thanks for catching this bug Thomas and testing this bug Narendra. The patch looks good. Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 09:03 -0700, shyam_i...@dell.com wrote: > 1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 snapshot 5 i386 on a server with > Broadcom iSCSI offload capabl

Re: Use iscsi kernel passthrough interface for sendtargets

2009-08-30 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Mike, I am still looking over/understanding the patches but could I trouble you patch this against the uIP offload tree? Thanks again. -Ben On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 14:31 -0700, Mike Christie wrote: > For offlaod cards, bnx2i, cxgb3i and be2iscsi, we have to do discovery > through a second

Re: [RFC]iscsid to run in conjunction with uIP stack

2009-08-17 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Mike, No problems, I will look over the source and submit fixes and integrate the needed Broadcom user-space library code into libuip. Thanks Rakesh integrating the uIP code into the open-iscsi tree! -Ben On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 19:53 -0700, Mike Christie wrote: > On 07/24/2009 08:06 AM, Rake

Re: [RFC]iscsid to run in conjunction with uIP stack

2009-06-22 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Rakesh, Thanks for starting on this, I agree with you that for simplicity that the uIP daemon should be integrated into the iscsid daemon. My comments are below: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 05:59 -0700, Rakesh Ranjan wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Following are my suggestions to get rid of vendor provided

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-09 Thread Benjamin Li
de. * change uIP utility functions (ie. logging, wrappers) to use the routines provided by iscsid. I think it is a great idea, if I or someone get some time to work on this, I think it would make the iscsi offload solution much simpler. Thanks again. -Ben On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 04:50 -0700, Rakesh

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-04 Thread Benjamin Li
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 03:51 -0700, Rakesh Ranjan wrote: > Benjamin Li wrote: > > > > Note: There is still some legacy code where I need a make a cleaner > > division between the stack and hardware implementation. This is because > > there is still some areas in the

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-04 Thread Benjamin Li
at 13:39 -0700, Mike Christie wrote: > Benjamin Li wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > I have attached the uio source here in this email. This should be the > > same as the tarfile I have attached to the RHEL 442418 bugzilla report > > on 2009-05-21 23:05 EDT. Please let me k

[PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-05-26 Thread Benjamin Li
file to determine the iSCSI IP address. The uIP source code will be posted to the web soon, and I will provide a link when the website is up and running. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Thanks again. -Ben Benjamin Li (1): iscsid: Broadcast iface record to uIP

[PATCH] iscsid: Broadcast iface record to uIP

2009-05-26 Thread Benjamin Li
The uIP user daemon is now using the iface file to set the IP address. This will be broadcasted to the uIP daemon when a iSCSI connected is initiated. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Li --- usr/Makefile |2 +- usr/initiator.c|5 +++ usr/transport.c|5 +++ usr/transport.h