V880 - JNI - San Fabric - Arbitrary Loop 1

[Dorga]

Equipment:
SunFire V880 (2) JNI 6460 cards
Sun L700e (Internal 3800 Silkworm Brocade w/out Fabric Assist or quick loop license)
Hitachi 9970

In our current situation on the 880 we NEED to have one of the JNI cards running as Fabric Port - Type N, and the other JNI as Public Loop - Type NL.

The problem is /kernel/drv/jnic146x.conf is default setup to work with all cards, not specific cards so we can not define each card the way we need it.

Is there a way to make this happen other than using EZ-Fiber?

 

[Annihilannic]

Have you tried prefixing the relevant entries in jnic146x.conf with the device IDs, e.g.

[tt]jnic0-FcLoopEnabled=0;[/tt]
[tt]jnic1-FcLoopEnabled=1;[/tt]

I know this works for some parameters, such as those identifying the WWPNs, etc, but not sure if it applies to all. Also I have no experience of those particular JNICs.



Annihilannic.

 

[Dorga]

Annihilannic,

Thank you for looking into this.. A combination of what you said and the following will do the trick. Thank JNI for not documenting everything.

File: /kernel/drv/jnic146x.conf

comment out:
#FcLoopEnabled = 0;
#FcFabricEnabled = 1;

Add in:
jnic146x0-FcLoopEnabled = 0;
jnic146x0-FcFabricEnabled = 1;
jnic146x1-FcLoopEnabled = 1;
jnic146x1-FcFabricEnabled = 1;

_AND_

target2_hba = "jnic146x1";
target2_wwpn = "500507630040c0c0";
target3_hba = "jnic146x1";
target3_wwpn = "500507630040c051";
target4_hba = "jnic146x1";
target4_wwpn = "500507630040c1fd";
target5_hba = "jnic146x1";
target5_wwpn = "500507630040cf89";
target6_hba = "jnic146x1";
target6_wwpn = "500104f0006e3e4d";

And then poof, it works..

Again, thanks JNI for not documenting these steps!