Users Guide

Category Manufacturer Type
• 57800S QP rNDC (10G SFP+ + 1G BASE-T)
• 57840 4x10G KR
• 57840 rNDC
Intel
• i540 QP rNDC (10G BASE-T + 1G BASE-T)
• i350 QP rNDC 1G BASE-T
• x520/i350 rNDC 1GB
Qlogic QMD8262 Blade NDC
In-built LOM cards also support the OS to iDRAC pass-through feature.
The following cards do not support the OS to iDRAC Pass-through feature:
• Intel 10 GB NDC.
• Intel rNDC with two controllers – 10G controllers does not support.
• Qlogic bNDC
• PCIe, Mezzanine, and Network Interface Cards.
Supported Operating Systems for USB NIC
The operating systems supported for USB NIC are:
• Windows Server 2008 SP2 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 SP2 R2 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012 SP1
• SLES 10 SP4 (64-bit)
• SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit)
• RHEL 5.9 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• RHEL 6.4
• vSphere v5.0 U2 ESXi
• vSphere v5.1 U1 ESXi
• vSphere v5.5 ESXi
On servers with Windows 2008 SP2 64-bit operating system, the iDRAC Virtual CD USB Device is not discovered automatically (or
enabled). You must enable this manually. For more information, see steps recommended by Microsoft to manually update the Remote
Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) driver for this device.
For Linux operating systems, configure the USB NIC as DHCP on the host operating system before enabling USB NIC.
If the host operating system is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, then after enabling the USB NIC in iDRAC, you must manually enable
DHCP client on the host operating system. For information to enable DHCP, see the documents for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
operating systems.
For vSphere, you must install the VIB file before enabling USB NIC.
For the following operating systems, if you install the Avahi and nss-mdns packages, then you can use https://idrac.local to launch the
iDRAC from the host operating system. If these packages are not installed, use https://169.254.0.1 to launch the iDRAC.
Operating
System
Firewall
Status
Avahi Package nss-mdns Package
RHEL 5.9 32–bit Disable Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.16-10.el5_6.i386.rpm)
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-4.el5.i386.rpm)
RHEL 6.4 64–bit Disable Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.25-12.el6.x86_64.rpm)
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm)
SLES 11 SP3
64–bit
Disable Avahi package is the part of operating system DVD nss-mdns is installed while installing Avahi
On the host system, while installing RHEL 5.9 operating system, the USB NIC pass-through mode is in disabled state. If it is enabled after
the installation is complete, the network interface corresponding to the USB NIC device is not active automatically. You can do any of the
following to make the USB NIC device active:
Configuring iDRAC
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