[SOLVED] Not working: Mellanox Technologies MT27520 Family [ConnectX-3 Pro]

[justinclift]

I had this on a lot of HPe Mellanox Cards, that why im avoiding since then HPe branded Cards xD

HPE Mellanox cards can be flashed with the standard Mellanox firmware. Guess you tried that?

 

[Ramalama]

HPE Mellanox cards can be flashed with the standard Mellanox firmware. Guess you tried that?

No? I tryed once with intel and almost briked the intel card, glad god the intel update tool did a backup.
Since then i never tried to flash an oem card with original fw

But if you say it works with mellanox, i gonna try that, lol
Thanks

 

[nidomiro]

As far i remember, all mellanox connect-x3 and 4 Cards from HPe have a vlan bug.
So vmbr with slave port/bond of connect-x3/4, will never be vlan aware. At least it won't work. Unless you put the slave ports into Promisc-Mode.

I had this on a lot of HPe Mellanox Cards, that why im avoiding since then HPe branded Cards xD
Same Firmware as on Nvidia Original, just original nvidia doesn't need Promic, Hpe needs xD
(Not same Firmware, but same version of the FW, just from HPe vs Mellanox Orig)

Check if your vlans work, if they do without promisc, you are in Luck.
Cheers

I just checked several vlans and it seems to work. I have a bond with the 10Gbe as primary and a 1gb connection as Backup (disconnected during testing), on top of that I have a vlan-aware bridge.

 

[justinclift]

I have a bond with the 10Gbe as primary and a 1gb connection as Backup

Oh, I didn't know having bonds with different link types (ie 10GbE and 1Gbe) could be done. I thought all the bond members had to have matching types.

Might need to do some experimenting later on.

 

[nidomiro]

I have a `active-backup` bond with the 10Gbe connection as primary, and the 1Gbe as backup.

 

[ieronymous]

Unless you put the slave ports into Promisc-Mode.

Hi can you elaborate a little bit more about that? How you put the ports in Promisc mode?
I was under the impression that this happens automatically when you select the mode - for instance LACP 802.3ad.
At least that is what I am seeing from my setup.

Thank you.

 

[thaliya]

Hi can you elaborate a little bit more about that? How you put the ports in Promisc mode?
I was under the impression that this happens automatically when you select the mode - for instance LACP 802.3ad.
At least that is what I am seeing from my setup.

Thank you.

Explained here in detail

HPE Mellanox cards can be flashed with the standard Mellanox firmware. Guess you tried that?

Could you link how to do that? I have a HP 546SFP+ which would be a ConnectX-3 Pro

 

[justinclift]

Could you link how to do that? I have a HP 546SFP+ which would be a ConnectX-3 Pro

I could , but there are already a whole bunch of people who've documented the process they went through to do that on their blogs, wiki's, etc.

Do a search online and you should turn up a bunch of relevant guides/examples.