Thrift API Having Trouble Establishing Connection Between the Client and the Server

[Shaoyu Tu]

Hello,

I have been troubleshooting with Octavio from Netronome Support regarding my issue for a few weeks now. I thought maybe others may have some input as to fixing this issue as well.

For context I am working with:

2x40G sNIC - Agilio LX SmartNIC 
model - assembly.partno=AMDA0058-0011
serial - assembly.serial=15350089
assembly.vendor=SMA
**chip.model=NFP6011** - nfp.model=0x60110010

Linux flashstack-7 4.15.0-142-generic #146~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 13 09:27:15 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The error that I get happens during the "rtecli design-load ... pif_design.json" where after some time with forced termination I would get the following output.

```

###:/home/stu024/simpleP4# ~/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/bin/rtecli design-load -f compiled_file.nffw -p /home/stu024/simpleP4/nfp-build/pif_design.json -c p4lab_rule.p4cfg

^CTraceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 13, in <module>

  File "sdk6_rte_cli.py", line 479, in main

  File "sdk6_rte_cli.py", line 39, in _rte_cmd

  File "contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__

  File "/root/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/lib/p4pylibs.zip/nfp_pif_rte/RTEInterface.py", line 447, in ConnectCtx

  File "/root/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/lib/p4pylibs.zip/nfp_pif_rte/RTEInterface.py", line 437, in Connect

  File "/root/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/lib/p4pylibs.zip/nfp_pif_rte/RTEInterface.py", line 62, in _RPC

  File "/root/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/lib/p4pylibs.zip/nfp_pif_rte/RTEInterface.py", line 323, in Ping

  File "/root/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/lib/p4pylibs.zip/nfp_pif_rte/sdk6_rte/RunTimeEnvironment.py", line 280, in sys_ping

  File "/root/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/lib/p4pylibs.zip/nfp_pif_rte/sdk6_rte/RunTimeEnvironment.py", line 291, in recv_sys_ping

  File "thrift/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.py", line 126, in readMessageBegin

  File "thrift/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.py", line 206, in readI32

  File "thrift/transport/TTransport.py", line 58, in readAll

  File "thrift/transport/TZlibTransport.py", line 191, in read

  File "thrift/transport/TZlibTransport.py", line 200, in readComp

  File "thrift/transport/TTransport.py", line 159, in read

  File "thrift/transport/TSocket.py", line 105, in read

KeyboardInterrupt

rtecli returned -1

###:/home/stu024/simpleP4# ~/SNIC_SDK/nfp-sdk-6.0.4/p4/bin/rtecli design-load -f compiled_file.nffw -p /home/stu024/simpleP4/nfp-build/pif_design.json -c p4lab_rule.p4cfg

error: Communication failure with RPC server: TSocket read 0 bytes

```

Has anyone ran into this issue before and if so are there any suggestions to resolving this.

Thank you for your time.

Best,

Shaoyu Tu