Pardon my banter, after drinking some more coffee and waking up, I think I pretty much answered my own question.... In this case, "not supported" MOST likely means not currently enabled I return you to a better program already in progress..... David On 08/19/2010 03:03 PM, David wrote: > Not supported by CentOS/RHEL or...? > > The adapters are Broadcom 5709 which are capable of hardware > offload/iSCSI HBA, though it isn't currently enabled (no key). > > Trying to rationalize why bnx2i is being invoked if hardware offload > isn't supported. > > David > > On 08/19/2010 02:44 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > >> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> >>> >> This was asked 2 or 3 days ago ... it refers to hardware offloading >> isn't supported I believe. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >