
User’s Guide—Converged Network Adapters and Intelligent Ethernet Adapters
8400, 3400 Series
viii 83840-546-00 D
bnx2x Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Driver Sign On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
CNIC Driver Sign On (bnx2 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
NIC Detected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Link Up and Speed Indication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Link Down Indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
MSI-X Enabled Successfully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
bnx2i Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
BNX2I Driver Signon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Network Port to iSCSI Transport Name Binding. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Driver Completes handshake with iSCSI Offload-enabled
CNIC Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Driver Detects iSCSI Offload Is Not Enabled on the CNIC Device 41
Exceeds Maximum Allowed iSCSI Connection Offload Limit. . . 41
Network Route to Target Node and Transport Name Binding
Are Two Different Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Target Cannot Be Reached on Any of the CNIC Devices. . . . . . 41
Network Route Is Assigned to Network Interface, Which Is Down 41
SCSI-ML Initiated Host Reset (Session Recovery) . . . . . . . . . . 41
CNIC Detects iSCSI Protocol Violation - Fatal Errors. . . . . . . . . 42
CNIC Detects iSCSI Protocol Violation - Non-FATAL, Warning . 43
Driver Puts a Session Through Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Reject iSCSI PDU Received from the Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Open-iSCSI Daemon Handing Over Session to Driver . . . . . . . 43
bnx2fc Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
BNX2FC Driver Signon: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Driver Compiles Handshake with FCoE Offload Enabled
CNIC Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Driver Fails Handshake with FCoE Offload Enabled CNIC Device 43
No Valid License to Start FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Session Failures Due to Exceeding Maximum Allowed FCoE
Offload Connection Limit or Memory Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Session Offload Failures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Session Upload Failures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Unable to Issue ABTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Unable to Recover the IO Using ABTS (Due to ABTS Timeout) 44
Unable to Issue IO Request Due to Session Not Ready . . . . . . 44
Drop Incorrect L2 Receive Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
HBA/lport Allocation Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
NPIV Port Creation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44