Installation guide

Networking Issues

The following networking bugs apply to the Solaris 10 release.

nxge Driver Panics in nxge_fflp_stat_update

(6644276)

Running kstat on the nxge driver might cause a system panic. However, this condition is rarely

encountered.

Workaround: Do not run kstat on the nxge driver.

SPARC: NFS/RDMA Connection Errors (6229077)

Connection errors might occur between an NFS server and client that are using Remote Direct

Memory Access (RDMA). Because of these errors, the buer pool resources are exhausted and

the system panics. The following error message is displayed:

rpcib: WARNING: rib_rbuf_alloc: No free buffers!

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:

■

Congure the NFS server to enable TCP. In the /etc/default/nfs le, change

(NFSD_PROTOCOL=tcp).

■

Mount the NFS le system from the client side with the proto=tcp mount option.

For more information, see the mount_nfs(1M) and nfs(4) man pages.

Bad Portal (6476060)

If an iSCSI target or an array returns more than one IP address as part of its send target

response, the initiator takes into account only the last address in the list and not the rst one, as

it used to prior to this release. As a result, if the last IP address is bad or invalid, the connection

to this target fails.

Workaround: Return the dierent target portal group tags (TPGT) for each entry in its send

target response. The initiator tries to establish a connection to all the IP addresses so that the

connection succeeds.

Networking Issues

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