perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Colin Morgan <>]

I've got a new perfSonar box setup and I'm running into some issues with it.  Notes are below:

    Version - 3.2rc1
        Whenever I tried to modify the MTU to 9000 and the txqueuelen to 5000, the box would kernel panic on me.  Could not get it to stop, so I downgraded to the latest stable release
        This version did recognized and installed the Broadcom BCM57711 dual port 10G NIC properly

    Version 3.1.3
        It will not properly install the Broadcom BCM57711 dual port 10G NIC with the bnx2x driver.  It gives the following errors:
            NVRAM config error. BAD XGXS ext_phy_config 0xff000911
            NVRAM config error. Invalid link_config 0x1070000 speed_cap_mask 0x500050
        It installs them at eth6 and eth7, but they show up under ethtool as twisted pair

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Colin

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Colin K. Morgan, CISSP

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High Performance Technologies, Inc./NOAA-GFDL
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