VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138.
Earlier many of us had issues with Intel X710 nics having a hardware LLDP agent that made LLDP unavailable from the VMware side of things. There is a similar issue with broadcom nics, but LLDP works fine from the VMware side. From the switch side it does however get announments both from VMware and from the nic itself. While VMware's LLDP agent transmits both the server hostname and vmnic, the hardware nic agent only transmits the physical mac address.
It looks like different switch vendors handle this scenario differently. Cisco seems to only store the last value it received while Arista stores both values.
As we can see here, also from the Arista management UI we see that the MAC address is listed first and in many views only the first line is used.
As far as I can tell there is no parameter available in the ESXi 6.7 bnxtnet driver to disable LLDP in the same way we could on Intel x710:
] esxcli system module parameters list -m bnxtnet
Name Type Value Description
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DRSS array of int Number of RSS Queues to create on the Default Queue RSS pool. [Default: 4, Max: 16]
RSS array of int Number of RSS queues to create in netqueue RSS pool. [Default: 4, Max: 16]
async_cmd_cmpl_timeout uint For debug purposes, currently set to 10000 msec's, user can increase it. [Default: 10000, Min: 10000]
debug uint Debug msglevel: Default is 0 for Release builds
disable_dcb bool Disable the DCB support. 0: enable DCB support, 1: disable DCB support. [Default: 1]
disable_fwdmp bool For debug purposes, disable firmware dump feature when set to value of 1. [Default: 0]
disable_geneve_filter bool For debug purposes, disable Geneve filter support feature when set to value of 1. [Default: 0]
disable_geneve_oam_support bool For debug purposes, disable Geneve OAM frame support feature when set to value of 1. [Default: 1]
disable_q_feat_pair bool For debug purposes, disable queue pairing feature when set to value of 1. [Default: 0]
disable_q_feat_preempt bool For debug purposes, disable FEAT_PREEMPTIBLE when set to value of 1. [Default: 0]
disable_roce bool Disable the RoCE support. 0: Enable RoCE support, 1: Disable RoCE support. [Default: 1]
disable_shared_rings bool Disable sharing of Tx and Rx rings support. 0: Enable sharing, 1: Disable sharing. [Default: 0]
disable_tpa bool Disable the TPA(LRO) feature. 0: enable TPA, 1: disable TPA. [Default: 0]
disable_vxlan_filter bool For debug purposes, disable VXLAN filter support feature when set to value of 1. [Default: 0]
enable_default_queue_filters int Allow filters on the default queue. -1: auto, 0: disallow, 1: allow. [Default: -1, which enables the feature when NPAR mode and/or VFs are enabled, and disables if otherwise]
enable_dr_asserts bool For debug purposes, set to 1 to enable driver assert on failure paths, set to 0 to disable driver asserts. [Default: 0]
enable_geneve_ofld bool Enable Geneve TSO/CSO offload support. 0: disable Geneve offload, 1: enable Geneve offload. [Default: 1]
enable_host_dcbd bool Enable host DCBX agent. 0: disable host DCBX agent, 1: enable host DCBX agent. [Default: 0]
enable_r_writes bool For debug purposes, set to 1 to enable r writes, set to 0 to disable r writes. [Default: 0]
enable_vxlan_ofld bool Enable VXLAN TSO/CSO offload support. 0: disable, 1: enable. [Default: 1]
force_hwq array of int Max number of hardware queues: -1: auto-configured, 1: single queue, 2..N: enable this many hardware queues. [Default: -1]
int_mode uint Force interrupt mode. 0: MSIX; 1: INT#x. [Default: 0]
max_vfs array of int Number of Virtual Functions: 0: disable, N: enable this many VFs. [Default: 0]
multi_rx_filters int Define the number of RX filters per NetQueue: -1: use the default number of RX filters, 0,1: disable use of multiple RX filters, so single filter per queue, 2..N: force the number of RX filters to use for a NetQueue. [Default: -1]
psod_on_tx_tmo bool For debug purposes, set to 1 to force PSOD on tx timeout, set to 0 to disable PSOD on tx timeout. [Default: 0]
Nic firmware and driver is:
] esxcli network nic get -n vmnic4
Advertised Auto Negotiation: true
Advertised Link Modes: 1000BaseCR1/Full, 25000BaseCR1/Full, Auto
Auto Negotiation: true
Cable Type: DA
Current Message Level: 0
Driver Info:
Bus Info: 0000:a1:00:0
Driver: bnxtnet
Firmware Version: 214.0.253.1
Version: 214.0.230.0
Anyone seen this issue before?
Lars
