Does RHEL ships with "XSVNIC" Xsigo virtual NIC drivers?

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Issue

  • We see many errors like below generated by XSVNIC nic driver modules on the server which causes intermittent network problems:
$ grep XSV var/log/messages
kernel: XSVNIC: xsvnic_xsmp_install: Duplicate VNIC install message name: NBU, VID=0x3973550102000ba7
kernel: XSVNIC: xsvnic_xsmp_install: Duplicate VNIC install message name: public, VID=0x3973550102000ba8
kernel: XSVNIC: xsvnic_xsmp_install: Duplicate VNIC install message name: NBU, VID=0x3973550102000ba7
kernel: XSVNIC: xsvnic_xsmp_install: Duplicate VNIC install message name: public, VID=0x3973550102000ba8
kernel: XSVNIC: xsvnic_xsmp_install: Duplicate VNIC install message name: NBU, VID=0x3973550102000ba7
kernel: XSVNIC: xsvnic_xsmp_install: Duplicate VNIC install message name: public, VID=0x3973550102000ba8
  • Does Red Hat ships/supports XSVNIC driver modules?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Xsigo Systems Virtual NIC Device using the XSVNIC driver

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