<div>FYI-My understanding is that the TOE functionality in Broadcom's GbE </div> <div>NetXreme controllers is only supported for Windows</div> <div>(through the Windows 2003 Scalable Networking Pack 'Chimney'</div> <div>TOE interface), for Linux NetXtreme only supports L2 NIC and iSCSI initiator</div> <div>capability</div> <div> </div> <div>Saqib<BR><BR><B><I>Florian Haas <florian.haas@linbit.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Friday 14 December 2007 21:29:30 Ben Clewett wrote:<BR>> Florian and Dr J Pelan,<BR>><BR>> I managed to get the correct software to upgrade the firmware on my<BR>> NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX network cards.<BR>><BR>> The only thing it changed was the iSCSI, from 1.0.0 to 1.1.8.<BR>><BR>> This seems to have fixed the problem. The load is predictable and no<BR>> DRBD locking has been seen so far. The
problem seems to have been solved.<BR><BR>I stand corrected. :-)<BR><BR>For those of you as ignorant as I was of these particular NICs (although I <BR>have been using them for some time), it appears after some research that all <BR>the BCM5708 devices, whether by Broadcom or re-branded by OEMs, do support <BR>both iSCSI and TOE in hardware, and RDMA as well. Even though the iSCSI <BR>engine appears quite broken in its original incarnation, per Ben's <BR>observation.<BR><BR>Thank you for that insight.<BR><BR>Ben, just for the record, can you give us your "lspci -nn | grep BCM5708" <BR>please?<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Florian<BR><BR>-- <BR>: Florian G. Haas <BR>: LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH<BR>: Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna, Austria<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>drbd-user mailing list<BR>drbd-user@lists.linbit.com<BR>http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><table border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0
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