ESXi 6.5: NVIDIA ConnectX-4 onwards NICs NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere Release Notes v4.16.70.1
Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes v6.5

Bug Fixes History

The table below lists the bugs fixed in this release.

Internal Ref.

Description

1358381

Description: Fixed an issue that prevented ESXi from being discovered via the CDP protocol on ConnectX-4 Lx adapter cards.

Keywords: CDP protocol, ConnectX-4 Lx

Discovered in Release: 4.16.12.12

Fixed in Release: 4.16.14.2

1253564

Description: Disabled multicast loopback to avoid a scenario that prevented MAC learning in some configurations.

Keywords: MAC, multicast loopback

Discovered in Release: 4.16.12.12

Fixed in Release: 4.16.13.5

958154

Description: NetQ RSS for encapsulated traffic is currently not supported.

Encapsulated traffic (VXLAN/Geneve) directed to NetQ RSS queue will not be distributed through all queues’ channels, thus will not utilize the RSS feature.

Note: It is highly recommended to avoid requesting RSS for encapsulated interfaces, i.e. refrain from defining the following in the VM configuration file:

<iface_name>.pnicFeatures=4

Keywords: NetQ RSS, encapsulated traffic

Discovered in Release: 4.16.8.8

Fixed in Release: 4.16.12.12

698142/637104

Description: Traffic loss of large packets might occur after MTU change.

Keywords: MTU, Traffic loss

Discovered in Release: 4.16.7.8

Fixed in Release: 4.16.10.3

846359

Description: Fixed an issue which caused the adapter card to get stuck in Down state after setting the ring size to 8192.

Keywords: Ring size

Discovered in Release: 4.16.7.8

Fixed in Release: 4.16.8.8

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