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Installing Linux Driver Software
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8.
For FCoE offload or iSCSI-offload-TLV, modify /etc/fcoe/cfg-<interface> by
setting DCB_REQUIRED=yes to DCB_REQUIRED=no.
9.
Turn on all ethX interfaces.
ifconfig
<ethX>
up
10.
For SLES, use YaST to configure your Ethernet interfaces to automatically
start at boot by setting a static IP address or enabling DHCP on the
interface.
11.
For FCoE offload and iSCSI-offload-TLV, disable lldpad on QLogic
converged network adapter interfaces. This is required because QLogic
uses an offloaded DCBX client.
lldptool set-lldp –i
<ethX>
adminStatus=disasbled
12.
For FCoE offload and iSCSI-offload-TLV, make sure
/var/lib/lldpad/lldpad.conf
is created and each
<ethX>
block does
not specify “adminStatus” or if specified, it is set to 0 (“adminStatus=0”) as
below.
lldp :
{
eth5 :
{
tlvid00000001 :
{
info = "04BC305B017B73";
};
tlvid00000002 :
{
info = "03BC305B017B73";
};
};
13.
For FCoE offload and iSCSI-offload-TLV, restart lldpad service to apply new
settings
For SLES11 SP1, RHEL 6.4 and legacy versions:
service lldpad restart
For SLES11 SP2:
rclldpad restart
