Fiber Traffic
Overkill
overkill at sadiqs.net
Sat Apr 10 13:06:38 UTC 2010
In ifconfig I don't see the actual tape device card and only network
devices. It seems like my device is the Fibre Channel: Emulex. Here is
my lspci output....
[root at backup-1 ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller
Hub (rev 12)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4
Port 2 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4
Port 3 (rev 12)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 4-5 (rev 12)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4
Port 5 (rev 12)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 6-7 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4
Port 7 (rev 12)
00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers
(rev 12)
00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers
(rev 12)
00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers
(rev 12)
00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved
Registers (rev 12)
00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved
Registers (rev 12)
00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers
(rev 12)
00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers
(rev 12)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI
Express Root Port 1 (rev 09)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
UHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev 09)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
EHCI USB2 Controller (rev 09)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC
Interface Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller
(rev 09)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-A PCI Express-to-PCI
Express Bridge
01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-B PCI Express-to-PCI
Express Bridge
02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5i
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev c3)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
06:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
Upstream Port (rev 01)
06:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to
PCI-X Bridge (rev 01)
07:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
Downstream Port E1 (rev 01)
07:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
Downstream Port E2 (rev 01)
08:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev c3)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 06)
0c:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 06)
0e:00.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Zephyr-X LightPulse Fibre
Channel Host Adapter (rev 02)
0e:00.1 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Zephyr-X LightPulse Fibre
Channel Host Adapter (rev 02)
10:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)
[root at backup-1 ~]#
On 4/9/2010 8:06 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 04/09/2010 03:35 PM, Overkill wrote:
>
>> All, I have a backup server with fiber card or scsi card in it. I'm
>> seeing a lot of traffic on my network card and it should all be going
>> thru my fiber card. The fiber card is hooked up to some sort of tape
>> device/robot. Is there a way that I can view or see my fiber card
>> device traffic? I'm getting complaints that I'm clogging the network
>> bandwidth and that shouldn't be the case. Thanks guys!
>>
> A fiberchannel card is not the same as a glass (fiber) NIC--especially
> if it's connected to a tape library.
>
> Post your "lspci" output.
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