Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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14.2.2.2 Installing the OFED IB Stack
To install the OFED IB stack:
1. See the OFED release notes provided in the following links and install OFED before compiling bnxt_re driver:
– http://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/release_notes/OFED_3.18-2_release_notes
– http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.18-2/OFED-3.18-2.tgz
OFED requires several development packages to compile and install. Install the following packages using the SDK CD:
– zlib-devel
– libnl-devel
– tcl-devel
– glib2-devel
– libudev-devel
2. Retrieve the OFED file from the following link:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.18-2/OFED-3.18-2.tgz
3. Install the file using the following commands:
tar xzf OFED-x.y.z3.18-2.tgz
cd OFED-x.y.z3.18-2
./install.pl
4. Select Option 2.
5. Select Option 3.
After the OFED is installed completely message is displayed, run the ofed_info -s command to verify that the correct
version of OFED is installed. Then proceed to the L2 + ROCE driver installation.
NOTE: The OFED library installs only once on the system regardless of the number of kernels in the OS. It always
overrides with latest. Ensure that OFED is compiling and installing for the correct kernel to install the RoCE driver.
14.2.2.3 Installing the Broadcom NetXtreme Drivers and RDMA Library
Install the bnxt_en, bnxt_re drivers, and libbnxt_re RDMA library as shown in Installing the Linux Driver.
14.2.3 Verifying RoCE Functionality
To verify RoCE functionality:
1. Verify that the Broadcom NIC driver is loaded using the following command:
# modinfo bnxt_en
2. Verify that the Broadcom RoCE driver is loaded using the following command:
# modinfo bnxt_re
3. Verify that the RoCE kernel is loaded using the following commands: