My Bluefield SmartNIC does not work in separated mode. To the best of my knowledge, it should work as a simple NIC in this mode. But no packet is transmitted/received.

Infrastructure & Networking Adapters and Cables
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I am pretty new in using BlueField. So, my question may be much trivial.

I have two hosts, and one BlueField is mounted on each of them, and they are connected to a switch for communication. The smartNICs are working in separated mode (default mode).

The communication between host and the local smartNIC is fine, however I cannot communicate with the other host. In fact no packet is transmitted based on what I see in the switch. When I checked what is happening I got that ARP requests are not resolved.

What should the problem. Another thing is that I have connected only one port of each smartNICs. Is that fine?

Thank you in advance.

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Hi Hesam,

I recommend to go over the BlueField documentation “Modes of Operation” section.

https://docs.mellanox.com/display/BlueFieldSWv22011000/Modes+of+Operation#ModesofOperation-SeparatedHost

In addition according to our records your account have a valid support contract , for further investigation please send an email to networking-support@nvidia.com and we will be happy to assist.

Thanks

Samer