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Windows Driver Advanced Properties and Event Log MessagesNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
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Windows Driver Advanced Properties and Event Log
Messages
Driver Advanced Properties
The Windows driver advanced properties are shown in Table 24.
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Table 24: Windows Driver Advanced Properties
Driver Key Parameters Description
Encapsulated Task offload Enable or Disable Used for configuring NVGRE
encapsulated task offload.
Energy Efficient Ethernet Enable or Disable EEE enabled for Copper ports and
Disabled for SFP+ or SFP28 ports.
This feature is only enabled for the
BCM957406A4060 adapter.
Flow control TX or RX or TX/RX enable Configure flow control on RX or TX
or both sides.
Interrupt Moderation Enable or Disable Default Enabled. Allows frames to
be batch processed by saving
CPU time.
Jumbo packet 1514 or 4088 or 9014 Jumbo packet size.
Large Send offload V2 (IPV4) Enable or Disable LSO for IPV4.
Large Send offload V2 (IPV6) Enable or Disable LSO for IPV6.
Locally Administered Address User entered MAC address. Override default hardware MAC
address after OS boot.
Max Number of RSS Queues 2, 4 or 8. Default is 8. Allows user to
configure Receive Side Scaling
queues.
Priority and VLAN Priority and VLAN Disable, Priority
enabled, VLAN enabled, Priority
and VLAN enabled.
Default Enabled. Used for
configuring 802.1Q and 802.1P.
Receive Buffer (0=Auto) Increments of 500. Default is Auto.
Receive Side Scaling Enable or Disable. Default Enabled
Receive Segment Coalescing (IPV4) Enable or Disable. Default Enabled
Receive Segment Coalescing (IPV6) Enable or Disable. Default Enabled
RSS load balancing profile NUMA scaling static, Closest
processor, Closest processor
static, conservative scaling,
NUMA scaling.
Default NUMA scaling static.
Speed and Duplex 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps or 25 Gbps or
Auto Negotiation.
10 Gbps Copper ports can Auto
negotiate speeds, whereas
25 Gbps ports are set to forced
speeds.