Users Guide

7–Linux Driver Software
Installing Linux Driver Software
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4. For FCoE offload, install the Open-FCoE utility.
For RHEL 6.4 and legacy versions, one of the following commands:
yum install fcoe-utils-<version>.rhel.64.brcm.<subver>.<arch>.rpm
rpm -ivh fcoe-utils-<version>.rhel.64.brcm.<subver>.<arch>.rpm
For RHEL 6.4 and legacy versions, the version of fcoe-utils or
open-fcoe included in your distribution is sufficient and no out of box
upgrades are provided.
Where available, installation with yum will automatically resolve
dependencies. Otherwise, required dependencies can be located on your
OS installation media.
5. For SLES 11 SP1, turn on the FCoE and link layer discover protocol agent
daemon (lldpad) services for FCoE offload, and just lldpad for
iSCSI-offload-TLV as follows:
chkconfig lldpad on
chkconfig fcoe on
6. Inbox drivers are included with all of the supported operating systems.
Rebooting is the simplest means to ensure the newly installed drivers are
loaded.
7. For FCoE offload, after rebooting, create configuration files for all FCoE ethX
interfaces:
cd /etc/fcoe
cp cfg-ethx cfg-<ethX FCoE interface name>
8. For FCoE offload or iSCSI-offload-TLV, modify
/etc/fcoe/cfg-<interface> by setting DCB_REQUIRED=yes to
DCB_REQUIRED=no.
9. Turn on all ethX interfaces.
ifconfig <ethX> up
10. For SLES, use YaST (an installation and configuration tool for openSUSE
and the SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions) to configure your Ethernet
interfaces to automatically start at boot by setting a static IP address or
enabling DHCP on the interface.
NOTE
Note that your distribution might have a different naming scheme for
Ethernet devices (that is, pXpX or emX instead of ethX).