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List:       e1000-devel
Subject:    Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel
From:       Pavlos Parissis <pavlos.parissis () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-11-04 12:56:27
Message-ID: 9cb85497-f8a1-b4a0-b2df-e3bb7e3c2131 () gmail ! com
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On 26/10/2017 11:14 μμ, Pavlos Parissis wrote:
> On 26/10/2017 11:01 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote:
>> So let me back off that statement a little bit - the driver hands off a lot of
>> requests to the firmware.
>>
>> I've had several people look at this issue and it could be because there's LLDP
>> going on in the firmware that might need to be turned off. Unfortunately,
>> that's something that might be controlled by HPe's configuration, and may or
>> may not be an approved HPe configuration. For that reason, you will have to go
>> to HPe for confirmation and for initial support.
> 
> LLDP was turned off as we run lldpd daemon on our servers.
> 
> Those servers run Bird (Internet Router daemon) for establishing BGP peering with
> upstream switches and we need lldp packets to arrive on the host as we use them
> for operation tasks. After the switch to this card, we found out that our tools
> stopped working and after few hours of troubleshooting we realized that lldp
> packets weren't arriving on the host, thus we turned off LLDP on the card by running:
> ( for command in /sys/kernel/debug/i40e/*/command; do echo "lldp stop" >
> ${command}; done ) 2>/dev/null
> 
> before the start of lldpd daemon, here is the output of lldpctl, which implies
> that LLDP is turned off in the firmware:
> 
> sudo lldpctl eth0
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LLDP neighbors:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Interface:    eth0, via: LLDP, RID: 2, Time: 41 days, 02:38:18
>   Chassis:
>     ChassisID:    mac 28:99:3a:50:05:e9
>     SysName:      foobar.com
>     SysDescr:     Arista Networks EOS version 4.18.4F running on an Arista
> Networks DCS-7050SX-64
>     MgmtIP:       x.x.x.x <<-- Replaced real IP
>     Capability:   Bridge, on
>     Capability:   Router, on
>   Port:
>     PortID:       ifname Ethernet3
>     PortDescr:    Not received
>     MFS:          9236
>   VLAN:         6, pvid: yes
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the update, any assistance it is very much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Pavlos
> 


Do you have any update about this issue?

Cheers,
Pavlos


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