[Linux-cluster] AoE does not discover

[Christopher Hawkins]

I am using a Tyan Thunder 2881 mobo with kernel 2.6.10... It has two onboard
broadcom gigabit nics that use built in driver module tg3.  

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[mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tracy R Reed
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:35 PM
To: linux clustering
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] AoE does not discover

Arnd Schmitter wrote:
>> /sys/module/aoe/parameters/aoe_iflist contains the active ethernet 
>> interface. If I echo interface names into /dev/aoe/interfaces they 
>> appear in /sys/module/aoe/parameters/aoe_iflist so I know aoe is 
>> loaded and doing something.
>>
> But not on the network or ?

Right, it seems to be not talking on the network.

> Normaly the aoe-driver should made a broadcast to discover all Server 
> on the net. If you cant see any Traffic on the Server then it looks 
> like that one of the Hosts Blocks the Networkpacket somewhere.

I have directly connected a machine to the machine that should be doing the
aoe broadcast and I run tethereal on it and it sees nothing.

I am thinking maybe my hardware is messed up somehow. I have AoE working
properly from my disk node to my desktop workstation so I know the
technology works and that I have the server set up properly.

The server that cannot discover AoE devices is using a Tyan S2882-D Thunder
K8SD Pro motherboard. Anyone know what ethernet drivers I should be using
with this? It is very strange. It has two gigabit network ports. I
understand it has a Broadcom gigabit chipset. But apparently it also has an
Intel eepro10/100 chipset...maybe on only one of the ports. 
It is not clear. I cannot find any docs anywhere that explain this clearly.
I originally booted it with the eepro10/100 chipset and that detected a
network interface, but only one. And it did not seem to be able to do AoE
discovery over that interface for whatever reason. I removed the intel
driver and compiled the Broadcom NetXtreme II driver into the kernel and it
did not detect any ethernet devices at all.

Is anyone using one of these boards? Care to tell me what driver you are
using or exactly what kind of ethernet chipset it really has?

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Tracy R Reed                  http://ultraviolet.org
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