3. Getting started
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3.2.12
Network
Network adapters
With T
RANS
F
ORM
A the following network adapters are available: The onboard LAN adapter on the mainboard, the
Ethernet Card 100 Mbps as well as the Ethernet Card 1000 Mbps. These adapters are used to connect the
P
ROCESSOR
to the LAN (local area network) and to connect central device and rendering machines to the sub-net.
The sub-net connection is established via a Gigabit Ethernet Switch, see section
.
Redundant network connection
For a redundant connection to the LAN the Ethernet Card 100 Mbps as well as the Ethernet Card 1000 Mbps are
also available as server adapters, allowing to configure them in teaming mode, sharing one single IP-address. On
the label on the card is indicated whether a network card is of server or desktop type. Please refer also to section
6.1.7 Redundant network adapter
for more information.
PCI and PCI Express network adapters
The Ethernet Card 100 Mbps is available only as PCI card; the Ethernet Card 1000 Mbps is available as PCI card
and as PCI Express card.
Models
The various models of network adapters allow different usage. The following table gives an overview about this
possible usage:
usage for following connections:
conne
ction sp
eed
[Mbps]
redundant ne
twork co
n-
nection
P
ROCESSOR
or central
device – LAN
conne
ction
central device
– subnet
conne
ction
rendering machine
–
subnet using PXE
rendering machine
–
subnet using Etherbo
ot
Onboard LAN adapter
10/100/1000
not OK OK
not OK
OK
not OK
Ethernet card 100 Mbps, desktop, PCI
10/100
not OK OK
OK
OK
OK *
Ethernet card 1000 Mbps, desktop, PCI
10/100/1000
not OK OK
OK
OK
not OK
Ethernet card 1000 Mbps, desktop, PCIe
10/100/1000
not OK OK
OK
OK
not OK
Ethernet card 100 Mbps, server, PCI
10/100
OK
OK
OK
OK
OK *
Ethernet card 1000 Mbps, server, PCI
10/100/1000
OK
OK
OK
OK
not OK
Ethernet card 1000 Mbps, server, PCIe
10/100/1000
OK
OK
OK
OK
not OK
*) version containing Etherboot code
In a distributed system the rendering machines are booted via the sub-net by means of packets
sent by the central device. Therefore the network adapter in the rendering machines must be ca-
pable to boot via a network. For the T
RANS
F
ORM
A-system there exist two different possibilities to
achieve this. It depends on the hardware that is used in your T
RANS
F
ORM
A-system, which one of
these two methods is used.
Former systems used special rendering Ethernet cards that carried Etherboot code which requested
the needed boot packets as soon as the central device had booted. With P
ROCESSOR
models
AGS-3328-
2
and from X server release 3.48 on no special rendering Ethernet cards are needed any longer
(anyhow the usage of these cards remains supported). Instead PXE (the Pre-eXecution Environ-
