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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Auto-negotiation Protocol – This setting configures the Auto-negotiation protocol for the adapter. Auto-negotiation is
a feature that allows a port on a switch, router, server, or other device to communicate with the device on the other end
of the link to determine the optimal duplex mode and speed for the connection. This setting is not available on
10GBASE-T controllers.
– IEEE and BAM
– IEEE and Consortium
– BAM Only
– Consortium Only
– IEEE 802.3by
Media Auto Detect – This setting allows the user to configure the Media Auto Detect feature. This setting is not
available on 10GBASE-T controllers.
– Enabled – Turn on Media Auto Detect.
– Disabled – Turn off Media Auto Detect.
Default EVB Mode – This setting configures the Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) mode which is an IEEE standard that
involves the interaction between virtual switching environments in a hypervisor and the first layer of the physical
switching infrastructure.
– VEB
– VEPA
– None
Port Link Training – This setting configures port link training when using force link speed. Link training should be
enabled when using PAM-4. Link training should be disabled when the attached switch does not support link training.
– Enabled – Port Link Training
– Disabled – Port Link Training
Adapter Error Recovery – This feature enables the recovery of firmware from fatal errors without manual intervention,
host reboot, or power cycle. This feature is supported on Linux only.
– Enabled – Adapter Error Recovery
– Disabled – Adapter Error Recovery