Hi, I have 2x Intel AF DA cards (Intel 82598EB). One of which is installed in a Windows Server 2012 R2 box. The other is in a Supermicro X8DTH OmniOS box.
These are directly attached by confirmed working Twinax cables but both sides show no link when connected to each other. All interfaces are in the same subnet.
When looping the cable on the Windows machine the link comes up as expected. When performing the same on OmniOS the link stays down (lights off on NIC).
I have swapped the NICs between servers and the issue stays with the OmniOS box.
Modprobe shows the ixgbe driver
Checking the logs shows that it correctly detects the card
dladm shows two interfaces with static IP addresses configured BUT also shows the link as down even with the cable looped back. The link lights on the card do not turn on.
I've verified that this card is in the Illumos HCL but cannot, for the life of me, determine why I can't get a link.
I've very new to Solaris but using Napp-it could easily get my 1GB cards detected and working but not my 10GB.
If anyone can offer me suggestions on things to check/try/kick I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
M
EDIT: I just did an 'lspci' and noticed that the onboard NICs are showing in output but not the 10Gb. I assume that this means something despite OmniOS loading the module and showing in its dmesg?
EDIT2: lspci doesn't show one of my 3 M1015 HBAs. The one that it doesn't display is not currently attached to anything. sas2ircu DOES detect it though. The HBA and network card are in slots 5/6 of my motherboard. This is a dual processor motherboard with one processor. Is there a limit to PCI devices in a single CPU instance? *grasping at straws*
These are directly attached by confirmed working Twinax cables but both sides show no link when connected to each other. All interfaces are in the same subnet.
When looping the cable on the Windows machine the link comes up as expected. When performing the same on OmniOS the link stays down (lights off on NIC).
I have swapped the NICs between servers and the issue stays with the OmniOS box.
Modprobe shows the ixgbe driver
Checking the logs shows that it correctly detects the card
dladm shows two interfaces with static IP addresses configured BUT also shows the link as down even with the cable looped back. The link lights on the card do not turn on.
I've verified that this card is in the Illumos HCL but cannot, for the life of me, determine why I can't get a link.
I've very new to Solaris but using Napp-it could easily get my 1GB cards detected and working but not my 10GB.
If anyone can offer me suggestions on things to check/try/kick I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
M
EDIT: I just did an 'lspci' and noticed that the onboard NICs are showing in output but not the 10Gb. I assume that this means something despite OmniOS loading the module and showing in its dmesg?
EDIT2: lspci doesn't show one of my 3 M1015 HBAs. The one that it doesn't display is not currently attached to anything. sas2ircu DOES detect it though. The HBA and network card are in slots 5/6 of my motherboard. This is a dual processor motherboard with one processor. Is there a limit to PCI devices in a single CPU instance? *grasping at straws*
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