Last time I checked (but that was a while ago) TOE (TCP Offloading Engine) was not supported very well, at least not with Broadcom chips. Did anything change in that regard recently?
More specifically, the chip I'm looking at is Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 and the distribution is 5.3
Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding?
Florin Andrei wrote:
Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding?
I don't think there are proprietary drivers for broadcom NICs, about 5 years ago there was proprietary fault tolerance drivers but I don't see them now.
If you go to their site they just give you the generic open source drivers.
I've looked on occasion for the TOE stuff but as you found support isn't there yet. I think I read of significant complications with offloading the stack in linux with regards to things like iptables and stuff.
I think there is some support for the iSCSI offload onto some of their NICs depending on driver, but not aware of anything for the full TCP stack.
nate
nate wrote:
Florin Andrei wrote:
Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding?
I don't think there are proprietary drivers for broadcom NICs, about 5 years ago there was proprietary fault tolerance drivers but I don't see them now.
Right, I was thinking of the stuff on their site, as opposed to what comes with the distro. I forgot it's open source anyway.
I think there is some support for the iSCSI offload onto some of their NICs depending on driver, but not aware of anything for the full TCP stack.
All I do is 802.3ad bonding and jumbo frames. No iSCSI.
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