[CentOS] CentOS5 with Dell Broadcom iSCSI Offload, does it work ?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am 09.09.2011 21:38, schrieb Alexander Dalloz:
> Am 09.09.2011 14:00, schrieb Antonio da Silva Martins Junior:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    After finding multiples answers to this question via google, but without 
>> making it work on my servers. Has anybody iSCSI Offload working on a Dell 
>> Server with Broadcom NICs ?
>>
>>    My environment: I'm running CentOS 5.6 CR, on a Dell PowerEdge R710 with 
>> Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 conecting to an EMC CX4-120 SAN, 
>> via 2x Cisco 2960G-24TC-L switches. It's working without the iSCSI offload. 
>>
>>    Thanks in advance,
>>
>>              Antonio.
> 
> http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/broadcom-netxtremeii-5709-iscsi/pd.aspx
> 
> quote "No Linux support for TOE"
> 
> Alexander

On the other hand Dell has documentation on how to use your card for
iSCSI offloading:

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/network/BroadCom/R230837/en/linux.htm

Important part is to load the cnic module together with the bnx2i
module. You must see a message like

bnx2i [05:00.00]: ISCSI_INIT passed

at system bootup.

Alexander