[CentOS] dmesg- bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0

[James Hogarth]

On 19 August 2010 20:39, David <david at adurotec.com> wrote:
> Getting "bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0" for all the NIC adapters
> on all of my R710's running CentOS 5.5.
>
> Here is an sample of the error messages:
>
> bonding: Warning: either miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target module
> parameters must be specified, otherwise bonding will not detect link
> failures! see bonding.txt for details.
> bonding: bond0: setting mode to active-backup (1).
> bonding: bond0: Setting MII monitoring interval to 500.
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready
> bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth0.
> bnx2: eth0: using MSIX
> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0
> bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with a down link.
> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0
> bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth2.
> bnx2: eth2: using MSIX
> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth2
> bnx2: eth0 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
> bonding: bond0: enslaving eth2 as a backup interface with a down link.
> bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth2
> bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0.
> bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.
> bonding: bond0: first active interface up!
> bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth2.
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
> bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth2, disabling it
> bnx2: eth2 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
> bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth2.
> bond0: no IPv6 routers present
>
>
> Understanding that bnx2i is used for hardware iscsi, why is this error
> occurring?
>
> David
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This was asked 2 or 3 days ago ... it refers to hardware offloading
isn't supported I believe.