Network Card User Manual

iv Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009
▼ To Verify the Hardware Installation 18
Rebooting the System 20
4. Network Configuration 21
Configuring the Network Host Files 21
Setting Up a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network on a Diskless Client System 23
▼ To Set Up a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Port on a Diskless Client 24
Installing the Solaris Operating System Over a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network 25
▼ To Install the Solaris Operating System Over a 10-Gigabit Ethernet
Network 25
Booting Over the 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network for Solaris x86 and Linux
Systems 29
▼ To Boot Over the Network on Solaris x86 and Linux Systems 29
5. Configuring the nxge Device Driver Parameters 33
nxge Hardware and Software Overview 33
Setting nxge Driver Parameters on a Solaris Platform 34
Setting Parameters Using the ndd Utility 34
Noninteractive and Interactive Modes 34
▼ To Specify Device Instances for the ndd Utility 35
▼ To Specify Parameter Values Using the ndd Utility 35
▼ To Use the ndd Utility in Interactive Mode 35
Setting Parameters Using the nxge.conf File 36
▼ To Set Driver Parameters Using an nxge.conf File 37
Tuning for Maximum Performance on a Solaris Platform 41
▼ To Improve Performance on an UltraSPARC CPU Based Sun Platform 41
▼ To Improve Performance on an AMD CPU Based Sun Platform 42
▼ To Obtain Higher Throughput Using the Generic Tunables for the Solaris
TCP/IP Stack 43
Setting Parameters on a Linux Platform 44