Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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6 Software Packages and Installation
See the following sections for information on software packages and installation.
6.1 Supported Operating Systems
Table 24 provides a list of supported operating systems.
6.2 Installing the Linux Driver
The driver installer can be downloaded from the following Dell Support website:
http://support.dell.com
Download the installer for your platform and adapter using the URL and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file to install
the driver.
6.2.1 Linux Ethtool Commands
In Table 25, ethX should be replaced with the actual interface name.
Table 24: Supported Operating Systems
OS Flavor Distribution
Windows Windows 2016 or 2019
Linux Redhat 7.9 or Redhat 8.3
SLES 15 SP 2
VMware ESXi 6.7 U3 or ESXi 7.0 U1
Table 25: Linux Ethtool Commands
Command Description
ethtool -s ethX speed 25000 autoneg off Force the speed to 25G. If the link is up on one port, the driver does
not allow the other port to be set to a different speed.
ethtool -i ethX Output includes driver, firmware, and package version.
ethtool -k ethX Show offload features.
ethtool -K ethX tso off Turn off TSO.
ethtool -K ethX gro off lro off Turn off GRO/LRO.
ethtool -g ethX Show ring sizes.
ethtool -G ethX rx N Set Ring sizes.
ethtool -S ethX Get statistics.
ethtool -l ethX Show number of rings.
ethtool -L ethX rx 0 tx 0 combined M Set number of rings.
ethtool -C ethX rx-frames N Set interrupt coalescing. Other parameters supported are: rx-usecs,
rx-frames, rx-usecs-irq, rx-frames-irq, tx-usecs, tx-frames, tx-usecs-
irq, tx-frames-irq.
ethtool -x ethX Show RSS flow hash indirection table and RSS key.
ethtool -s ethX autoneg on speed 10000 duplex full Enable Autoneg (see Auto-Negotiation Configuration for additional
information).
ethtool --show-eee ethX Show EEE state.