Users Guide

7–Linux Driver Software
Teaming with Channel Bonding
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Session Upload Failures
bnx2fc: ERROR!! destroy timed out
bnx2fc: Disable request timed out. destroy not set to FW
bnx2fc: Disable failed with completion status <status>
bnx2fc: Destroy failed with completion status <status>
Unable to Issue ABTS
bnx2fc: initiate_abts: tgt not offloaded
bnx2fc: initiate_abts: rport not ready
bnx2fc: initiate_abts: link is not ready
bnx2fc: abort failed, xid = <xid>
Unable to Recover the IO Using ABTS (Due to ABTS Timeout)
bnx2fc: Relogin to the target
Unable to Issue I/O Request Due to Session Not Ready
bnx2fc: Unable to post io_req
Drop Incorrect L2 Receive Frames
bnx2fc: FPMA mismatch... drop packet
bnx2fc: dropping frame with CRC error
Host Bus Adapter and lport Allocation Failures
bnx2fc: Unable to allocate hba
bnx2fc: Unable to allocate scsi host
NPIV Port Creation
bnx2fc: Setting vport names, <WWNN>, <WWPN>
Teaming with Channel Bonding
With the Linux drivers, you can team adapters together using the bonding kernel
module and a channel bonding interface. For more information, see the Channel
Bonding information in your operating system documentation.
Statistics
Detailed statistics and configuration information can be viewed using the ethtool
utility. See the ethtool man page for more information.