Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Revision History
- Table of Contents
- Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- Functional Description
- Network Link and Activity Indication
- Features
- Software and Hardware Features
- Virtualization Features
- VXLAN
- NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- Stateless Offloads
- UDP Fragmentation Offload
- Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload
- Multiqueue Support for OS
- SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix
- SR-IOV
- Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- Supported Combinations
- Installing the Hardware
- Software Packages and Installation
- Windows Driver Advanced Properties and Event Log Messages
- Teaming
- System-level Configuration
- ISCSI Boot
- VXLAN: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- SR-IOV: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- DCBX – Data Center Bridging
Software Packages and InstallationNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
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Once the files are extracted, INF installation is executed through "upgrade driver" functionality using the Device
Manager (devmgmt.msc). Open the Device Manager, select the desired NIC, right click and select the upgrade
driver to update it.
Linux
The Linux drivers are supplied in RPM, KMP, and source code format. To build the device driver from the source
code using Linux, refer to the following example:
1. As a root user, log on to the Linux system.
2. scp or cp the driver tar ball on to the Linux system. A typical example is:
cp /var/run/media/usb/bnxt_en-<version>.tar.gz /root/
3. Execute the following command:
tar –zxvf /root/bnxt_en-<version>.tar.gz
4. Execute the following command:
cd bnxt_en-<version>
5. Execute the following command:
make; make install; modprobe -r bnxt_en; modprobe bnxt_en
For RDMA functionality, install both the bnxt_en and bnxt_re driver. Use netxtreme-bnxt_en-<version>.tar.gz
instead of
bnxt_en-<version>.tar.gz.
Module Install
RHEL
The driver image can be installed with one of the following options:
• Mount the bnxt_en-x.x.x-rhelYuZ-x86_64-dd.iso image using the Dell iDRAC Virtual console.
• Mount the bnxt_en-x.x.x-rhelYuZ-x86_64-dd.iso image from a CD/DVD.
• Copy the bnxt_en-x.x.x-rhelYuZ-x86_64-dd.iso image to a USB device and mount the device.
Start the OS install, push the tab key, and enter “linux dd”. Continue the installation until the driver disk is
requested and select the bnxt_en driver. Newer Linux installations can use “inst.dd” as the kernel command
parameter.
SLES
The driver image can be installed with one of the following options:
• Mount the bnxt_en-x.x.x-rhelYuZ-x86_64-dd.iso image using the Dell iDRAC Virtual console.
• Mount the bnxt_en-x.x.x-rhelYuZ-x86_64-dd.iso image from a CD/DVD.
• Extract the bnxt_en-x.x.x-rhelYuZ-x86_64-dd.iso image, copy the contents to a USB device, and mount the
USB device.