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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NetXtreme-E User Guide User Guide for Dell Platforms
Setup Key Stroke – This setting allows users to select the hotkey combination for invoking the Broadcom legacy
configuration setup menus (CCM). This setting is available only if legacy configuration menus are supported on the
adapter.
– Ctrl-S – Pressing the CTRL key along with S key will load CCM.
– Ctrl-B – Pressing the CTRL key along with B key will load CCM.
Banner Message Timeout – This setting configures the duration for which the Broadcom legacy option ROM banner is
to be displayed on the screen during POST. This is a numeric setting. The value must be specified in the range 0 to 15
seconds.
Pre-boot Wake on LAN – This setting configures Wake on LAN (WoL) which is the ability to remotely power on a
server or to wake it up from sleep mode. This setting is available only on adapters that support the Wake on LAN
feature. This setting is available only on adapters that support the Wake on LAN feature.
– Enabled – Turn on WoL
– Disabled – Turn off WoL
VLAN Mode – This setting configures a virtual LAN.
– Enabled – Turn on VLAN mode
– Disabled – Turn off VLAN mode
VLAN ID – This setting configures a VLAN tag when VLAN mode is enabled. This is a numeric setting. The value must
be specified in the range 1 to 4094.
Boot Retry Count – This setting configures the number of times legacy boot must be attempted in case of failure.
– No Retry
– 1 Retry
– 2 Retries
– 3 Retries
– 4 Retries
– 5 Retries
– 6 Retries
– Indefinite Retries
Permit Total Port Shutdown – This feature is supported on Linux OS only. This setting allows the port to be completely
disabled when a port down command is received from the host OS or drive. This feature is not supported when
virtualization mode is NPAR or NPAR + SRIOV.
– Enabled – Permit Total Port Shutdown
– Disabled – Permit Total Port Shutdown