User`s guide

Chelsio T5/T4 Unified Wire For Linux iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. CHELSIO UNIFIED WIRE 11
1. Introduction 12
1.1. Features 12
1.2. Hardware Requirements 13
1.3. Software Requirements 13
1.4. Package Contents 13
2. Hardware Installation 16
3. Software/Driver Installation 19
3.1. Pre-requisites 19
3.2. Installing Chelsio Unified Wire from source 20
3.3. Installing Chelsio Unified Wire from RPM 32
3.4. Firmware update 35
4. Software/Driver Uninstallation 36
4.1. Uninstalling Chelsio Unified Wire from source 36
4.2. Uninstalling Chelsio Unified Wire from RPM 41
5. Configuring Chelsio Network Interfaces 43
5.1. Configuring network-scripts 43
5.2. Creating network-scripts 44
5.3. Checking Link 45
6. Software/Driver Update 46
II. NETWORK (NIC/TOE) 47
1. Introduction 48
1.1. Hardware Requirements 48
1.2. Software Requirements 49
2. Software/Driver Loading 50
2.1. Loading in NIC mode (without full offload support) 50
2.2. Loading in TOE mode (with full offload support) 50
3. Software/Driver Unloading 51
3.1. Unloading the NIC driver 51
3.2. Unloading the TOE driver 51
4. Software/Driver Configuration and Fine-tuning 52
4.1. Instantiate Virtual Functions (SR-IOV) 52
4.2. Performance tuning 52
III. VIRTUAL FUNCTION NETWORK (VNIC) 58
1. Introduction 59
1.1. Hardware Requirements 59
1.2. Software Requirements 60