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10/40GbE Architecture Efficiency Maxed-Out? It’s Time to Deploy 25/50/100GbE
All roads lead to 25Gb! Check out mottibeck (Motti Beck):In 2014, after the IEEE rejected the idea of standardizing 25GbE and 50GbE over one lane and two lanes respectively. It was then that a group of...
View ArticleUD Pingpong and MTU on RoCE
With the MTU set for the ethernet device to be 9000 (jumbo frames), I can only send 4012 bytes using ibv_ud_pingpong. Is there a reason why its 4012?I understand there are ethernet headers to be added...
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Does SX6012 support enhanced transmission selection and Priority flow based...
Does SX6012 + GW support enhanced transmission selection and Priority flow based control (802.1Qaz, 802.1p/Q and 802.1Qbb)?
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Re: boot problem SX6512
I'm not sure why but that did the trick. Thanks! Good thing this wasn't deployed and I had physical access to the box!!
View ArticleEthernet Fabric
Hi dear,I'm looking for Mellanox Ethernet Fabric solution something link what others presented.I mean solutions like Cisco fabricpath, Brocade VCS, Juniper QFabric, and ,.....is there something similar...
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Hi all,I want to know does Mellanox Ethernet Switches support Trill, SPB or something like these protocols for Ehternet Fabric ?does sx1410 Support vxlan ? what about sx1710 ?can I pass layer 2 vlan...
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Hi, We have something called VMS. Please see http://www.mellanox.com/blog/tag/vms/ We also have our new Spectrum switches that supports VXLAN in hardware....
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Re: Ethernet Fabric
Hi, we don't support Trill or SPB.What do you mean by support of VXLAN? do you mean VXLAN termination? VTEP?QinQ is supported on Mellanox switches. Which adapters do you have?Ophir.
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Re: Ethernet Fabric
Hi ophir,To extent Vlans over Layer3 Network ( I want to mention in spine/leaf Topology for Big Datacenters,) there are two approach, one deploying Trill/SPB and the other is vxlan ( Bridging ), the...
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Interface goes down during PXE Deployment
Hello * we're going to deploy some new Storage Servers via a 40g NIC by PXE / Netboot and running into trouble. As we've debugged in the last days by TCPDUMP and on our Switch after the TFTP Fetch of...
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Re: Ethernet Fabric
HI Reza,Currently we don't have VXLAN termination on the switch. This is on the roadmap. It is planned to be introduced with Mellanox switches (Spectrum) with Cumulus OS in few months.Can you add the...
View ArticleRe: MLNX_OFED Update for kernel 3.19 in Ubuntu 14.04.3
Hi,Since the kernel is updating in Ubuntu release, it may be that you can install MLNX_OFED on 14.04.2 but not on 3.Did you try installing version 3.2-2?
View ArticleRe: Ethernet Fabric
Hi Maor, thanks for your support,ok I got it. but for network Diagram I 've sent what mellanox soulution is?I want to carry layer2 over layer3 network specially in big data centers.I did to describe...
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Reza, where are you based at? I can have local solution engineer pick up the conversation and assist you in design and implementation. Thanks,Lior
View ArticleMCX354A-FCBT & Switch Speed Issue
I have a MCX354A-FCBT adapter, MC2207128-003 passive cable and SX6015 unmanaged switch.When connecting the cable to the adapter in loopback (i.e. between port A & B) the ibstat command reports a...
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Re: Interface goes down during PXE Deployment
While it may not help you specifically with getting pixiecore up and running, the CX3Pro ships with iPXE as a boot rom -- it supports directly downloading the boot config, kernel and initrd over http....
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ping is not happening between MCX314A and MCX354A 40G Etherenet slots
I have connected two X86 machines with PCIe base 40 G MCX314A and MCX354A Ethernet cards. I am trying to point with point to point cable.I am not able to that one. I can able to find Ethernet ports...
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How can I check ASIC version on my SX6036G
I saw a Ethernet Interface issue on your MLNXOS like below. How can I check ASIC revision?
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Question about Dual SX6036G configurations on vSphere 6.0 Update 2
I made a tiny personal lab with 2 of SX6036G Gateway switches.During 1 month POC period later I have some questions below. Q1. Why ARP-Proxy mode enabled then IB SM was disabled?At first I think that...
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Re: Windows-Linux ConnectX-2 setup
Thanks for the reply! I got some downtime on the storage server to test and have two further clarifications/questions. - The WinOF version of ib_write_bw doesn't have the -R flag, and the -d flag only...
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