Installation guide

x86: bnx Driver Does Not Support Broadcom

NetXtreme II 5709 Chipset (6637053)

The Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 (BCM5709) chipset is not supported in the Solaris 10 10/09

release.

Workaround: Download the bnx driver from the

http://www.broadcom.com/support/

ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php

web site.

Note – Existing chipsets might experience performance regression issues when the downloaded

driver is installed.

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

Solaris 10 10/09 Release Notes • October 200988