AT-2872SX ExpressCard Fast Ethernet Fiber Module Installation and User’s Guide

Checking bnx2i Driver Messages

The following are the most common bnx2i driver messages:

BNX2I Driver signon

Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI Driver bnx2i v1.0.30 (Sep 29, 2007)

Network port to iSCSI transport name binding

bnx2i: netif=eth2, iscsi=bcm570x-050000

bnx2i: netif=eth1, iscsi=bcm570x-030c00

Driver completes handshake with iSCSI offload-enabled CNIC device

bnx2i [05:00.00]: ISCSI_INIT passed

Note

This message is displayed only when the user attempts to make an iSCSI connection.

Driver detects iSCSI offload is not enabled on the CNIC device

bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth3

bnx2i: bnx2i: LOM is not enabled to offload iSCSI connections, dev=eth0

Driver unable to allocate TCP port for iSCSI connection

bnx2i: run 'bnx2id' daemon to alloc TCP ports

Exceeds maximum allowed iSCSI connection offload limit

bnx2i: unable to allocate iSCSI context resources

Network route to target node and transport name binding are two different devices

bnx2i: conn bind, ep=0x... ($ROUTE_HBA) does not belong to hba $USER_CHOSEN_HBA

where

ROUTE_HBA is the net device on which connection was offloaded based on route information

USER_CHOSEN_HBA is the HBA to which target node is bound (using iscsi transport name)

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Allied Telesis AT-2872SX Checking bnx2i Driver Messages, BNX2I Driver signon, Network port to iSCSI transport name binding

AT-2872SX specifications

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