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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hi all,</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I hope this is readable .</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Using an OI 151a7</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm trying to turn off flowcontroll on an Intel X520-DA2 10Gbe nic</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have put </div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">flow_control = 0; </div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf </div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and also done:</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">dladm set-linkprop -p flowctrl=no ixgbe0</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">results after reboot:</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">dladm show-ether -x ixgbe0</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LINK PTYPE STATE AUTO SPEED-DUPLEX PAUSE</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ixgbe1 current up yes 10G-f bi</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- capable -- yes 1G-f,100M-f bi</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- adv -- yes 1G-f bi</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- peeradv -- no -- none</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==============================================================</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">dladm show-linkprop -p flowctrl ixgbe0</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ixgbe0 flowctrl rw no no no,tx,rx,bi</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===============================================================</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The second output seems ok, but the first puzzles me. Als the dladm command doesn't show any immediate effect, I think it doesn't work.</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">question on: can somebody clarify to me if flowcontrol is now turned off or not? And if not, what do I have to do to turn it off?</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I know that there were issues with the ixgbe driver in OI151a7, can this have something todo with that? If this is solved in a9, how would I go about adding the a9 driver to this a7 system (if thats's possible).</div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greetings,</div> </div></body>
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