On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:36:17PM -0600, Joe Nall wrote:
As someone who deals with HP DL580 boxes with 6+ NICs routinely,
this is good stuff. Deterministic naming of the built in NICs will
simplify installation instructions for us.
Thanks for the good word!
Are the internal names going to be lomX or emX?
embedded NICs are emX
Add-in cards are pci<slot>#<port>
in both cases, if the device is an SR-IOV NIC, it will append _<vf> to
the name for each virtual function.
Now, oddly, I don't have a lot of HP gear handy - especially not a
Flex10. If someone does, I'd love to know how to tell the various
partitions of a Flex10 are on the same port, so we can append
_<flex10-instance> similar to SR-IOV. I'm asking the same of Broadcom
who just published an update to handle NPAR for their 57712 driver to
netdev over the weekend.
Than
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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
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