Users Guide

3–Driver Installation
Installing VMware Driver Software
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VMware Driver Parameter Defaults
Table 3-6 lists the VMware driver parameter default values.
vxlan_filter_en Enables (1) or disables (0) the VXLAN filtering based on the outer MAC, the
inner MAC, and the VXLAN network (VNI), directly matching traffic to a spe-
cific queue. The default is vxlan_filter_en=1. You can specify multiple
values delimited by commas for multiport or multifunction configurations.
enable_vxlan_offld Enables (1) or disables (0) the VXLAN tunneled traffic checksum offload and
TCP segmentation offload (TSO) capability. The default is
enable_vxlan_offld=1. You can specify multiple values delimited by
commas for multiport or multifunction configurations.
Table 3-6. VMware Driver Parameter Defaults
Parameter Default
Speed Autonegotiation with all speeds advertised. The speed
parameter must be the same on all ports. If auto-
negotiation is enabled on the device, all of the device
ports will use autonegotiation.
Flow Control Autonegotiation with RX and TX advertised
MTU 1,500 (range 46–9,600)
Rx Ring Size 8,192 (range 128–8,192)
Tx Ring Size 8,192 (range 128–8,192)
MSI-X Enabled
Transmit Send Offload
(TSO)
Enabled
Large Receive Offload
(LRO)
Enabled
RSS Enabled (four RX queues)
HW VLAN Enabled
Number of Queues Enabled (eight RX/TX queue pairs)
Wake on LAN (WoL) Disabled
Table 3-5. VMware NIC Driver Optional Parameters (Continued)
Parameter Description