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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NetXtreme-E User Guide User Guide for Dell Platforms
– Disabled – Turn off RDMA
Blink LEDs – This setting allows the user to configure the duration for which the LEDs on the physical network port
should blink to assist with port identification. This is a numeric setting. The value must be specified in the range 0 to 15
seconds.
Link Status – This field displays the physical link status of the network port as reported by the controller. This is a read-
only field.
– Connected – Link is up
– Disconnected – Link is down
Physical Link Speed – This field displays the current link speed of the network port as reported by the controller. This
is a read-only field. Speed is reported in Mb/s/Gb/s.
Chip Type – This field displays the Broadcom specific identifier which denoted the adapter family to which the chip
belongs and the revision. This is a read-only field.
PCI Device ID – This field displays the 16 bit PCI Device ID reported by the controller. This is a vendor defined ID which
varies across non-NPAR, NPAR and RDMA mode. Refer to MF mode and Support RDMA sections for more information
on these modes. This is a read-only field.
Bus Device Function – This field displays the BIOS assigned PCI Bus:Device:Function identifier of the card. This is a
read-only field.
Permanent MAC Address – This field displays the Permanent MAC address assigned during manufacturing. This is a
read-only field.
Virtual MAC Address – This field displays the Virtual MAC address assigned to the device. This is a read-only field
from the HII menu. The value for this parameter can be configured using remote utilities.