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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Once the boot loader is downloaded, press Ctrl+B to enter the iPXE menu
Once in the iPXE shell, run the following commands to add a VLAN tag on the adapter interface.
– Ifstat [to identify the adapter interface by its MAC address]
– vcreate --tag <VLANID> <interface>
– autoboot <interface>
This starts the PXE boot on the test interface with VLAN.
In order to destroy the VLAN tag on the adapter interface, the command vdestroy <VLAN_interface> can be run
in the iPXE shell.
NOTE: For iPXE to support the the vcreate command, iPXE must be built with vlan_cmd enabled in buildcfg. For
more details, refer https://ipxe.org/buildcfg/vlan_cmd.
10.4 PXE Server Configuration
The PXE server is operating system independent. A PXE server is any host that can lease out DHCP IPs to any requesting
PXE Client, point to a boot loader file, and transfer further configuration and boot files to the PXE client over any application
level protocol.
This section explains how to setup a PXE server on a RHEL/CentOS-based OS. For Windows deployment services, refer
to documentation provided on the Microsoft Technet website. For setting up PXE servers on any other operating system,
refer to the documentation provided by the respective operating system.