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
Banner Message Timeout – This setting configures the duration for which the Broadcom legacy option ROM banner is
to be displayed on the screen during POST. This is a numeric setting. The value must be specified in the range 0 to 15
seconds.
Wake on LAN – This setting configures Wake on LAN (WoL) which is the ability to remotely power on a server or to
wake it up from sleep mode. This setting is available only on adapters that support the Wake on LAN feature.
– Enabled – Turn on WoL
– Disabled – Turn off WoL
VLAN Mode – This setting configures a virtual LAN.
– Enabled – Turn on VLAN mode
– Disabled – Turn off VLAN mode
VLAN ID – This setting configures a VLAN tag when VLAN mode is enabled. This is a numeric setting. The value must
be specified in the range 1 to 4094.
Boot Retry Count – This setting configures the number of times legacy boot must be attempted in case of failure.
– No Retry
– 1 Retry
– 2 Retries
– 3 Retries
– 4 Retries
– 5 Retries
– 6 Retries
– Indefinite Retries
Permit Total Port Shutdown – This feature is supported on Linux OS only. This setting allows the port to be completely
disabled when a port down command is received from the host OS or drive. This feature is not supported when
virtualization mode is NPAR or NPAR + SRIOV.
– Enabled – Permit Total Port Shutdown
– Disabled – Permit Total Port Shutdown