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Regulatory Information: Broadcom NetXtreme II® Network Adapter User Guide

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Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Controller

BCM95708A0804F
BCM95709A0907G
BCM95709A0906G

Broadcom Corporation
190 Mathilda Place
Sunnyvale, California 94086 USA

Note that this device has been approved for non-business purposes and may be used in any environment, including residential
areas.

A Class Device

Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Controller

BCM95709A0916G

Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

BCM957710A1022G
BCM957710A1021G

Summary of Contents for NetXtreme II SERIES

Page 1: ...fications Regulatory Information Troubleshooting Information in this document is subject to change without notice 2014 Broadcom Corporation All rights reserved Trademarks used in this text Broadcom Ne...

Page 2: ...technology and software are subject to the customs and export control laws and regulations of the United States U S and may also be subject to the customs and export laws and regulations of the countr...

Page 3: ...e Ethernet fabric by boosting server CPU processing performance and memory utilization while alleviating I O bottlenecks The Broadcom NetXtreme II adapter includes a 10 100 1000 Mbps or 10 Gbps Ethern...

Page 4: ...2 3z Clause 30 SMBus controller ACPI 1 1a compliant multiple power modes IPMI support Advanced network features Jumbo frames up to 9 KB The OS and the link partner must support jumbo frames Virtual LA...

Page 5: ...it greatly benefits from hardware acceleration of the TCP processing i e use of a TOE However iSCSI as a Layer 5 protocol has additional mechanisms beyond the TCP layer iSCSI processing can also be o...

Page 6: ...rk adapter that is installed in your system The BACS utility also enables you to perform detailed tests diagnostics and analyses on each adapter as well as to modify property values and view traffic s...

Page 7: ...nd Features Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English features htm 9 5 2014 3 44 57 PM Please read all Restrictions and Disclaimers Back to...

Page 8: ...net Teaming Services NOTE Windows Server 2012 provides built in teaming support called NIC Teaming It is not recommended that users enable teams through NIC Teaming and BASP at the same time on the sa...

Page 9: ...ed to receive packets for the same MAC address The outbound load balancing scheme is determined by our BASP driver The team link partner determines the load balancing scheme for inbound packets In thi...

Page 10: ...N N S Windows Server 2008 R2 Y Y N S Y N N S Windows Server 2012 Y Y N S Y N N S Legend Y yes N no N S not supported The Smart Load Balancing type of team works with all Ethernet switches without havi...

Page 11: ...multaneously Broadcom adapters support multiple VLANs on a per port or per team basis allowing very flexible network configurations Figure 1 Example of Servers Supporting Multiple VLANs with Tagging F...

Page 12: ...has an Broadcom adapter installed It is connected to switch port 10 Both the adapter and the switch port are configured for VLANs 1 and 2 and have tagging enabled NOTE VLAN tagging is only required t...

Page 13: ...IM generic event model These events are __InstanceCreationEvent __InstanceDeletionEvent and __InstanceModificationEvent and are defined by CIM CIM requires the client application to register the event...

Page 14: ...HBA API is an application program interface for the management of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters BASP Extensible Agent The Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Controller Extended Information SNMP...

Page 15: ...or EMT64 based computer that meets operating system requirements One open PCI Express slot Depending on the PCI Express support on your adapter the slot may be of type PCI Express 1 0a x1 PCI Express...

Page 16: ...f damage particularly on the edge connector Never attempt to install a damaged adapter Installation of the Add In NIC The following instructions apply to installing the Broadcom NetXtreme II adapter a...

Page 17: ...priate cable Table 1 lists the copper cable requirements for connecting to 10 100 1000BASE T and 10GBASE T ports Table 1 10 100 1000BASE T and 10GBASE T Cable Specifications Port Type Connector Media...

Page 18: ...stack This allows computers to connect to network resources in an MS DOS environment Windows Deployment Service WDS To extend functionalities beyond basic network connectivity when loading an operati...

Page 19: ...up or Device Setting configuration menu 3 Select the device on which you want to change MBA settings 4 Select MBA Configuration Menu 5 Use the drop down menu to select the boot protocol of choice if b...

Page 20: ...that are not part of the standard distribution You can create a driver disk for the Broadcom NetXtreme II adapter from the image distributed with the installation CD Refer to the Linux Readme txt fil...

Page 21: ...Platforms The NDIS2 driver software can be run from an MS DOS startup disk using Microsoft Network Client 3 0 or from the hard disk using Microsoft LAN Manager 2 2 Creating a Startup Disk to Run Micro...

Page 22: ...sableDHCP 0 DriverName TCPIP BINDINGS MS NE2CLONE LANABASE 0 Example Protocol ini file for IPX network setup version 0x3110 netcard ms ne2clone 1 MS NE2CLONE 1 transport ms ndishlp MS NDISHLP transpor...

Page 23: ...NET nwlink A NET NET START BASIC net use z SERVERNAME SHARENAME For NetBEUI SET PATH A NET A NET NET START BASIC net use z SERVERNAME SHARENAME 5 Create a Config sys file on the startup disk in drive...

Page 24: ...ertain order These keywords are used concurrently and are included for manufacturing purposes Do not use them unless you are familiar with how to configure PCI devices A PCI device scan utility is nee...

Page 25: ...controls the hardware and is responsible for sending and receiving Ethernet packets on behalf of the Linux host networking stack This driver also receives and processes device interrupts both on beha...

Page 26: ...eded on some kernels bnx2i Driver The current version of the driver has been tested on 2 6 x kernels starting from 2 6 18 kernel The driver may not compile on older kernels Testing is concentrated on...

Page 27: ...l source C compiler Procedure 1 Install the source RPM package rpm ivh netxtreme2 version src rpm 2 Change the directory to the RPM path and build the binary RPM for your kernel For RHEL cd rpmbuild r...

Page 28: ...erface 8 Disable lldpad on Broadcom CNA interfaces This is required because Broadcom utilizes an offloaded DCBX client lldptool set lldp i ethX adminStatus disasbled 9 Make sure var lib lldpad lldpad...

Page 29: ...ify the rebuilding of modules whenever you upgrade the kernel This is accomplished by creating a framework where a kernel dependent module source can reside To install the binary DKMS RPM driver packa...

Page 30: ...apply to the bnx2x driver On 2 6 kernels it is not necessary to bring down the eth interfaces before unloading the driver module If the cnic driver is loaded unload the cnic driver before unloading th...

Page 31: ...versions are included Boot drivers for other Linux versions can be compiled by modifying the Makefile and the make environment Further information is available from the Red Hat website http www redha...

Page 32: ...ow control mechanism to send pause frames where one of the host buffers when in RSS mode are exhausted This is a zero packet drop targeted flow control mechanism Set the dropless_fc parameter to 1 to...

Page 33: ...CoS In another example set the cos_min_rate to 0x30201 to give CoS the higher rate of transmission To avoid using the fairness algorithm omit setting cos_min_rate or set it to 0 Set the multi_mode par...

Page 34: ...of 2 for example 32 64 128 rq_size Configure RQ size used to choose the size of asynchronous buffer queue size per offloaded connections RQ size is not required greater than 16 as it is used to place...

Page 35: ...ange is 0 255 Coalesce TX Frames IRQ 20 range is 0 255 Coalesce Statistics Microseconds 999936 approximately 1 second range is 0 16776960 in increments of 256 MSI Enabled if supported by the 2 6 kerne...

Page 36: ...2 eth0 using MSI MSI X enabled successfully bnx2x only bnx2x eth0 using MSI X bnx2i Driver BNX2I Driver signon Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI Driver bnx2i v2 1 1D May 12 2010 Network port to iSCSI transp...

Page 37: ...scsi_error MRDSL violation bnx2i iscsi_error F bit not set bnx2i iscsi_error invalid TTT bnx2i iscsi_error invalid DataSN bnx2i iscsi_error burst len violation bnx2i iscsi_error buf offset violation b...

Page 38: ...and operating system documentation for the status of Remote PHY support Configure the adapter using the standard ethtool commands Statistics Detailed statistics and configuration information can be v...

Page 39: ...Modifying the iSCSI iface File To configure the iSCSI VLAN add the VLAN ID in the iface file for iSCSI In the following example the VLAN ID is set to 100 Begin Record 6 2 0 873 2 el6 Iface iscsi_ifac...

Page 40: ...bnx2i can offload the following number of connections BCM5708 28 BCM5709 43 BCM5771x 128 This is not a hard limit but just a simple on chip resource allocation math bnx2i will be able to offload 28 c...

Page 41: ...at this time because of driver size limitations Solaris DU diskettes can be used to install the driver into the system both during system installation and or after the system has been installed and b...

Page 42: ...item X For boolean values 1 TRUE and 0 FALSE Memory Usage The number of RX TX buffer descriptors specified in the configuration file can have a detrimental affect on memory usage If the counts are too...

Page 43: ...y level of 6 so changing an interface s priority level to 5 is common 1 First read the driver conf man page for a background primer 2 Find out the driver instance paths assigned on your system grep bn...

Page 44: ...l fail indicating the driver is busy This is true when you have two or more instances of bnxef loaded in which case you should first delete all FCoE ports and then unload the driver Unloading will occ...

Page 45: ...e_tpa The optional parameter disable_tpa can be used to disable the Transparent Packet Aggregation TPA feature By default the driver will aggregate TCP packets but if you would like to disable this ad...

Page 46: ...enable the dropless flow control mechanism feature on all Broadcom network adapters in the system vmkload_mod bnx2x dropless_fc 1 Driver Defaults Speed Autonegotiation with all speeds advertised Flow...

Page 47: ...ver directly controls the hardware and is responsible for sending and receiving Ethernet packets on behalf of the VMware host networking stack The bnx2x driver also receives and processes device inter...

Page 48: ...VMware Driver Software Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English vmware htm 9 5 2014 3 45 03 PM 7 Configure the VLAN on VMKernel...

Page 49: ...a34 bnx2fc link up fcoe 1000 mac address 2000 mac address Software FCoE vmhba35 bnx2fc link up fcoe 1000 mac address 2000 mac address Software FCoE NOTE The label Software FCoE is a VMware term used t...

Page 50: ...tware for that device Both a graphical interactive installation mode see Using the Installer and a command line silent mode for unattended installation see Using Silent Installation are available NOTE...

Page 51: ...y Follow the on screen instructions To install the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator for iSCSI Crash Dump If supported and if you will use the Broadcom iSCSI Crash Dump utility it is important to fol...

Page 52: ...D EM64T platforms setup s v qn ADDSOURCE Driversa64 BACSa64 BASPa64 SNMPa64 CIMa64 The following command line statement installs only the Broadcom drivers according to platform IA32 platforms setup s...

Page 53: ...D to extend functionalities beyond basic network connectivity Microsoft however does not currently support this architecture when loading an operating system through its Windows Deployment Services WD...

Page 54: ...lation Kit AIK allows you to modify the default boot wim and install wim files and create WinPE 2 0 images to include the NetXtreme II monolithic driver in the Windows Server installation To insert th...

Page 55: ...o insert the NetXtreme II monolithic driver into a WinPE 3 1 boot image Windows server 2008 R2 SP1 1 Open the WinPE image and mount it Dism Mount WIM WimFile c WinPEx64 winpe wim index 1 MountDir c Wi...

Page 56: ...ns for fiber interfaces Auto 1 Gbps is enabled when that speed is supported 0 1 Gbps Full Duplex 771 Auto with 1 Gbps Fallback 33539 Hardware default 65283 An example is provided in the file showing h...

Page 57: ...configuring the CNAs The BACS client software includes a graphical user interface GUI and a command line interface CLI A communication protocol enables communication between the provider and the clie...

Page 58: ...configured open a command prompt and run the following command to enable the remote management on the Windows server winrm quickconfig You can use the following command to view the configuration infor...

Page 59: ...cation with the BACS GUI on the Windows client The Windows client also must be configured with the self signed certificate See Perform HTTPS Configuration if you plan to use HTTPS NOTE The self signed...

Page 60: ...rg out server key 5 Generate a self signed certificate To generate a self signed certificate which is active for 365 days enter the following command openssl x509 req days 365 in server csr signkey se...

Page 61: ...in 4 Click Add 5 Select Certificates and click Add 6 Select Computer account 7 Click Next and then click Finish 8 Click Close then click OK 9 Open the Certificates Local Computer folder and then open...

Page 62: ...onfigure WinRM HTTPS SSL on the Server 1 Create WinRM Listener as follows a Click Start or press the Windows logo key and select Run b Enter MMC and click OK c Select the self signed certificate from...

Page 63: ...and winrs r https yourserver 5986 u username p password hostname b If setup correctly the output of the command shows the server host name c To check WinRM Service Configuration run the following comm...

Page 64: ...e Windows Components folder d Select Windows Remote Management WinRM e Under Windows Remote Management WinRM select WinRm Client f Under WinRM Client double click Trusted Hosts g In the TrustedHostsLi...

Page 65: ...on the Windows server Step 1 Set up Namespace Security Using WMI Control The WMI Control provides one way to manage namespace security You can start the WMI Control from the command prompt using this...

Page 66: ...o configure security for WMI access contact your Network Administrator 1 Click Start or press the Windows logo key and select Run 2 Enter DCOMCNFG and then click OK 3 The Component Services dialogue b...

Page 67: ...that are not attached to a domain Open the Local Security Policy editor by clicking Start Run and entering secpol msc Open the Local Policies node and select Security Options Then scroll down to the s...

Page 68: ...terface CLI Communication Protocols A communication protocol enables exchanging information between provider and the client software These are proprietary or open source implementations of the Web Bas...

Page 69: ...ust be installed form source as described in the following section Note that in inbox Pegasus HTTP is not enabled by default After Inbox OpenPegasus is installed successfully if no further configurati...

Page 70: ...r HTTP or HTTPS The default port numbers for HTTP and HTTPS are 5989 and 5989 respectively NOTE You can add these exports at the end of the bash_profile This file is located in the root directory The...

Page 71: ...et the following cimconfig s enableAuthentication true p cimconfig s enableNamespaceAuthorization false p cimconfig s httpAuthType Basic p cimconfig s passwordFilePath cimserver passwd p cimconfig s f...

Page 72: ...open the appropriate ports in the firewall RedHat 1 Click System select Administration and then select Firewall 2 Select Other Ports 3 In the Port and Protocol Dialog box select User Defined 4 In the...

Page 73: ...r example if the certificate directory is etc ssl certs copy hostname pem to etc ssl certs 1 Change directory to etc ssl certs 2 Create a hash value by running the following command openssl x509 noout...

Page 74: ...ackage 2 Install the RPM package using the following command rpm i BACS version arch rpm To Use BACS To use the GUI on XWindow double click the BACS4 desktop icon or access the BACS program from the t...

Page 75: ...creen configuration options Supported Operating Systems for iSCSI Boot The Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet adapters support iSCSI boot on the following operating systems Windows Server 2008 and...

Page 76: ...t software interprets the Vendor Class ID field used during DHCP If the Vendor Class ID field in the DHCP Offer packet matches the value in the field the iSCSI boot host software looks into the DHCP O...

Page 77: ...some targets such as the Dell EMC AX100i it is necessary to enable Use TCP Timestamp Target as First HDD Disabled LUN Busy Retry Count 0 IP Version IPv6 For IPv6 non offload HBA Boot Mode Disabled Not...

Page 78: ...r is configured Since the DHCP daemon runs in the Windows environment as a user process all TCP IP parameters have to be statically configured before the stack comes up in the iSCSI Boot environment I...

Page 79: ...or iSCSI boot Broadcom adapters support the following DHCP configurations DHCP Option 17 Root Path DHCP Option 43 Vendor Specific Information DHCP Option 17 Root Path Option 17 is used to pass the iSC...

Page 80: ...formation to the DHCPv6 client For iSCSI boot Broadcom adapters support the following DHCP configurations DHCPv6 Option 16 Vendor Class Option DHCPv6 Option 17 Vendor Specific Information NOTE The DHC...

Page 81: ...soft procedure injects only the eVBD and NDIS drivers Broadcom recommends that all drivers eVBD VBD BXND OIS FCoE and NetXtreme I NDIS be injected Refer to the silent txt file for the specific driver...

Page 82: ...nd booting in either the offload or non offload path 1 Remove any local hard drives on the system to be booted the remote system 2 Load the latest Broadcom MBA and iSCSI boot images into the NVRAM of...

Page 83: ...prompt configure the way the system acquire IP address and press OK 11 If static IP was chosen you need to enter IP information for iscsi initiator 12 RHEL Choose to skip media testing 13 Continue in...

Page 84: ...scsiuio CONFIG_FILE etc iscsid conf DAEMON sbin iscsid ARGS c CONFIG_FILE Source LSB init functions etc rc status This service is run right after booting So all targets activated during mkinitrd run s...

Page 85: ...nf netbvbda pnf To easily find all the instances of the files to be deleted run the following command dir s D Temp Win2008R2Mod filename 7 Run the following command to unmount the Boot wim image dism...

Page 86: ...t_nic netxtremeii10 php NOTE Refer to the silent txt file for the specific driver installer application for instructions on how to extract the individual Windows NetXtreme II drivers EVBDa BXND60a BXO...

Page 87: ...ount the install wim image dism mount wim wimfile src sources install wim index X mountdir mnt Note that X is a placeholder for the index value that you obtained in step 10 12 Enter the following comm...

Page 88: ...from the Broadcom CD This step is not needed for SuSE 10 5 Install the linux nx2 package on your Linux system You can get this package from Broadcom CD 6 Install bibt package on you Linux system You...

Page 89: ...r 2 iSCSI boot to Broadcom iSCSI HBA then you will receive an IP address conflict Solution Change the IP address of the network property in the OS Problem After configuring the iSCSI boot LUN to 255 a...

Page 90: ...s the userspace iscsid daemon that keeps track of all iSCSI sessions Offloaded iSCSI connections take up system and on chip resources that must be freed up before the device can be reset iscsid runnin...

Page 91: ...ab See Viewing and Configuring Resource Reservations 3 Select the Configuration tab 4 DHCP is the default for IP address assignment but this can be changed to static IP address assignment if this is t...

Page 92: ...II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English iscsi htm 9 5 2014 3 45 06 PM 4 Select the Discovery tab and click Add to add a target portal 5 Enter the IP address...

Page 93: ...apter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English iscsi htm 9 5 2014 3 45 06 PM 6 From the General tab select Broadcom NetXtreme II C NIC iSCSI Adapter from Local adapter 7 Select...

Page 94: ...col Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English iscsi htm 9 5 2014 3 45 06 PM 8 Click OK to close Advanced setting and then OK to add the tar...

Page 95: ...II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English iscsi htm 9 5 2014 3 45 06 PM 9 From the Targets tab select the target and click Log On to log into your iSCSI targe...

Page 96: ...r User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English iscsi htm 9 5 2014 3 45 06 PM 10 Click on Advanced 11 On the General tab select the Broadcom NetXtreme Ii C NIC iSCSI adapter from Lo...

Page 97: ...in Broadcom Advanced Control Suite BACS Q What tools should be used to create the connection to the target A Use Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator version 2 08 or later Q How do I know that the conne...

Page 98: ...ta contains the data returned by the target 13 Error Target offered an unknown AuthMethod Dump data contains the data returned by the target 14 Error Target offered an unknown digest algorithm for CHA...

Page 99: ...nd sent to renegotiate iSCSI parameters 51 Error Target failed to respond in time to a logout request sent in response to an asynchronous message from the target 52 Error Initiator Service failed to r...

Page 100: ...ter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English iscsi htm 9 5 2014 3 45 06 PM 72 Error Unexpected target portal IP types Dump data contains the expected IP type Please read all Re...

Page 101: ...Configuring Teaming Supported Features by Team Type Selecting a Team Type This section describes the technology and implementation considerations when working with the network teaming services offere...

Page 102: ...raffic TCP Transmission Control Protocol TOE TCP Offload Engine This is the hardware that is capable of handling stateful fastpath offloading of TCP and IP processing UDP User Datagram Protocol WINS W...

Page 103: ...e up the team to be the Team MAC address This address is typically taken from the first adapter that gets initialized by the driver When the system hosting the team receives an ARP request it selects...

Page 104: ...protocol stack provides the required ARP Reply It is important to understand that receive load balancing is a function of the number of clients that are connecting to the system through the team inte...

Page 105: ...the trunk The MAC address of the Aggregator can be the MAC addresses of one of the MACs that make up the group LACP and marker protocols use a multicast destination address The Link Aggregation contr...

Page 106: ...OE is enabled for a team only when all of the members support and are configured for TOE TOE is only supported on SLB type teams Each virtual BASP device advertises 1024 offload connections If the num...

Page 107: ...y of Gigabit Ethernet adapter manufacturers Therefore half duplex mode is not considered here Teaming across hubs is supported for troubleshooting purposes such as connecting a network analyzer for SL...

Page 108: ...can operate at different speeds Yes Yes No No Mixed speeds adapters that support a common speed s but can operate at different speeds Yes Yes No must be the same speed Yes Load balances TCP IP No Yes...

Page 109: ...orted for Each Type of Team Architecture The Broadcom Advanced Server Program is implemented as an NDIS intermediate driver see Figure 2 It operates below protocol stacks such as TCP IP and IPX and ap...

Page 110: ...mediate Driver manages the outbound traffic flow for all teaming modes For outbound traffic every packet is first classified into a flow and then distributed to the selected physical adapter for trans...

Page 111: ...h Table Each entry inside this table has a singly linked list and each link Inbound Flow Entries represents an IP host located in the same subnet When an inbound IP Datagram arrives the appropriate In...

Page 112: ...ing and load balancing Switch independence implies that there is no specific support for this function required in the switch allowing SLB to be compatible with all switches Under SLB all adapters in...

Page 113: ...ches that support Cisco Fast EtherChannel Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel Extreme Networks Load Sharing and Bay Networks or IEEE 802 3ad Link Aggregation static mode Since load balancing is implemented on...

Page 114: ...ware periodically probes issues a link packet from each team member one or more specified target network device s The probe target s responds when it receives the link packet If a team member does not...

Page 115: ...tch Outgoing packet management BASP Failover event Loss of link only Failover time 500 ms Fallback time 1 5 sb approximate MAC address Same for all adapters Multivendor teaming Yes a Some switches req...

Page 116: ...pter if the miniport driver for that adapter has flow control enabled NOTE All adapters on the team must support the property listed in Table 7 in order for the team to support the property Checksum O...

Page 117: ...de a user priority field and the VLAN identifier VID Virtual LANs VLANs allow the user to split the physical LAN into logical subparts Each defined VLAN behaves as its own separate network with its tr...

Page 118: ...request and ping replies in an SLB team with two active members All servers Blue Gray and Red have a continuous ping to each other Figure 3 is a setup without the interconnect cable in place between...

Page 119: ...lows traffic from to Blue and Gray to reach each other without any problems Note the additional entries in the CAM table for both switches The link interconnect is critical for the proper operation of...

Page 120: ...transparent to end stations which do not detect whether they are connected to a single LAN segment or a switched LAN of multiple segments Spanning Tree Protocol STP is a Layer 2 protocol designed to...

Page 121: ...g or transitions to forwarding A TCN BPDU does not initiate an STP recalculation It only affects the aging time of the forwarding table entries in the switch It will not change the topology of the net...

Page 122: ...ld potentially fail and network functionality is maintained Clients could be connected directly to the hub and fault tolerance would still be maintained server performance however would be degraded Fi...

Page 123: ...iple adapters may be used for each of these purposes private intracluster communications and public external client communications All Broadcom teaming modes are supported with Microsoft Cluster Softw...

Page 124: ...be used for communication between the compute nodes I O Ethernet can be used for file sharing and serving the data to the compute nodes This can be done simply using an NFS server or using parallel fi...

Page 125: ...art of our standard offering Link aggregation is commonly used between switches especially for large configurations Jumbo frames although not a part of our standard offering may provide performance im...

Page 126: ...ementation Figure 9 Network Backup without Teaming Because there are four client servers the backup server can simultaneously stream four backup jobs one per client to a multidrive autoloader Because...

Page 127: ...iates a second backup operation one to Client Server Red and one to Client Server Blue The route that Client Server Blue uses to send data to the backup server is dependant on its ARP cache which poin...

Page 128: ...or a team Mirror all uplink ports from the team at the switch If the team spans two switches mirror the interlink trunk as well Sample all mirror ports independently On the analyzer use an adapter and...

Page 129: ...mended to test again for failover and fallback 15 Test the performance behavior of the team before placing into a production environment 16 Network teaming is not supported when running iSCSI traffic...

Page 130: ...L work over a virtual adapter team Answer Wake on LAN functionality operates in an environment before the operating system is loaded WOL occurs when the system is off or in standby so no team is confi...

Page 131: ...n the switch ports connected to the team to prevent the loss of communications caused by STP Question Where do I monitor real time statistics for an adapter team in a Windows server Answer Use the Bro...

Page 132: ...gured for 100Mb full duplex link The adapter has been manually configured for the selected line speed and duplex settings No action is required 10 Informational Network controller configured for 1Gb h...

Page 133: ...le 9 Intermediate Driver Event Log Messages System Event Message Number Severity Message Cause Corrective Action 1 Informational Event logging enabled for Broadcom Advanced Server Program driver No ac...

Page 134: ...adapter has been added to or activated in a team No action is required 18 Informational Network adapter is de activated and is no longer participating in network traffic The driver does not recognize...

Page 135: ...uplex settings No action is required 10 Error Unable to register the interrupt service routine The device driver cannot install the interrupt handler Reboot the operating system remove other device dr...

Page 136: ...server availability with NIC failover and NIC link bandwidth aggregation Server I O virtualization with a virtual OS and monolithic OS support Changes to the OS is not required SLB type teaming is sup...

Page 137: ...ition s on port 0 Select to configure See Table 2 for configuration options PF 1 PF 3 PF 5 PF 7 Displays the physical function PF information regarding the partition s on port 1 Select to configure Se...

Page 138: ...hat four functions are configured with total six offloads as follows Function 0 Ethernet FCoE Function 1 Ethernet Function 2 Ethernet Function 3 Ethernet iSCSI If Bandwidth Weight is configured as 0 f...

Page 139: ...simpler to deploy upgrade and maintain than in standard Ethernet networks DCB technology allows the capable Broadcom C NICs to provide lossless data delivery lower latency and standards based bandwidt...

Page 140: ...titioning NPAR mode FCoE boot is supported only when the first function on each port is assigned an FCoE personality FCoE boot is not supported when the FCoE personality is assigned to any other funct...

Page 141: ...2 PM 4 On some platforms you may need to set the boot protocol through system BIOS configuration in the integrated devices pane as described above For all other devices set the Boot Protocol field to...

Page 142: ...om NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 6 Enable the Connect field Enter the target WWPN and Boot LUN information...

Page 143: ...P MAC ends in an odd digit The WWPN is 20 00 FIP MAC For example if the FIP MAC is 00 10 18 11 22 33 then the WWPN will be 20 00 00 10 18 11 22 33 NOTE The default WWPN is 20 00 FIP MAC The default WW...

Page 144: ...ng the FCoE boot ROM from booting and not by simply allowing the FCoE ROM to attempt to boot and allowing the BIOS to fail through and boot the installation media Finally it is required that the FCoE...

Page 145: ...Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 2 Then load the bxfcoe OFC driver...

Page 146: ...or iso image with the latest Broadcom drivers injected See Injecting Slipstreaming Broadcom Drivers into Windows Image Files in the iSCSI chapter Also refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base topic KB974...

Page 147: ...12 PM SLES11 SP2 Installation RHEL6 Installation SLES11 SP2 Installation 1 Boot from the SLES11 SP2 installation medium and on the installation splash screen press F6 for driver update disk Select Ye...

Page 148: ...e II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 3 Once the driver update is complete select Next to continue with OS installation 4 W...

Page 149: ...NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 5 Ensure FCoE Enable is set to yes on the 10GbE Broadcom initiator ports you...

Page 150: ...O_VLAN are set to yes and DCB required is set to no 7 For each interface to be enabled for FCoE boot click on Create FCoE VLAN Interface The VLAN interface creation dialog will launch Click Yes to con...

Page 151: ...oadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 9 Click Next to continue installation YaST2 will prompt to activate mu...

Page 152: ...meII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 10 Continue installation as usual 11 Under the Expert tab on the Installation Settings screen select Booting 12 Select the Boot Loader Installation tab and th...

Page 153: ...823086 fcoe img 3 For RHEL6 3 on the installation splash screen press Tab and add the options dd updates URL_TO_ANACONDA_UPDATE_IMAGE to the boot command line Please refer to the RedHat Installation...

Page 154: ...file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 5 When prompted Do you have a driver disk enter Yes Note RHEL does not allow driver update media to be loaded via th...

Page 155: ...adcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 6 Once drivers are loaded proceed with installation 7 Select Specialize...

Page 156: ...Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 8 Click Add Advanced Target...

Page 157: ...ibre Channel Over Ethernet Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 9 Select Add FCoE SAN and select Add driv...

Page 158: ...II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 10 For each interface intended for FCoE boot select the interface deselect Use DCB sele...

Page 159: ...ork Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 11 Repeat steps 8 through 10 for all initiator ports 12 Confirm all FCoE visible disks are vis...

Page 160: ...configuration when adding new boot through an FCoE initiator that was not configured during installation The following sections describe this procedure for each supported operating system RHEL6 2 and...

Page 161: ...configured FCoE interface 1 Configure a new FCoE interface that will be added as a new path so it can discover the boot LUN a Create a etc fcoe cfg INTERFACE file for each new FCoE initiator by dupli...

Page 162: ...etXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 3 Press F11 to accept the agreement and continue 4 Select the boot LUN for ins...

Page 163: ...ver Ethernet Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 5 Select the desired installation method 6 Select the k...

Page 164: ...Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English fcoe htm 9 5 2014 3 45 12 PM 7 Enter a password 8 Press F11 to confirm the install 9 Press Enter...

Page 165: ...sole and display the configure management network network adapters screen to select the NIC to be used as the management network device 11 For BCM57800 and BCM57810 boards the FCoE boot devices need t...

Page 166: ...host accesses only the designated LUNs Booting from SAN After Installation Now that boot configuration and OS installation are complete you can reboot and test the installation On this and all future...

Page 167: ...force On SLES11spX systems execute mkinitrd 4 If you are using different name for the initrd under boot be sure to overwrite it with the default as dracut mkinitrd updates the ramdisk with the default...

Page 168: ...rivers Once you load the drivers and see your SAN disk s detach or disconnect the USB flash drive immediately before selecting the disk for further installation Configuring FCoE By default DCB is enab...

Page 169: ...roup PG and it can be considered as a virtual link or virtual interface queue The transmission scheduler in the peer is responsible for maintaining the allocated bandwidth for each PG For example a us...

Page 170: ...as such will accept all DCB settings as advertised by the switch If PFC is operational PFC settings supersede link level flow control settings If PFC is not operational link level flow control setting...

Page 171: ...sed If you install the DCB feature be aware that selecting Enable single root I O virtualization SR IOV in Virtual Switch Manager will force the underlying adapter into a DCB state in which OS DCB con...

Page 172: ...ation tab and select SR IOV Global Enable b In the SR IOV VFs per PF field configure the number of SRIOV Virtual Functions VFs that the adapter can support per physical function from 0 to 64 in increm...

Page 173: ...an NPAR enabled physical function PF then the number of virtual functions for that PF is set to zero therefore SR IOV is disabled on that PF This limitation applies only when the adapter is configure...

Page 174: ...al local area networks VLANs BASP functionality is available only on systems that use at least one Broadcom network adapter BASP operates on Windows operating systems only NOTE Some features of BACS a...

Page 175: ...of the hierarchy is the Host container which lists all hosts managed by BACS Below the hosts are the installed network adapters with the manageable elements such as physical port VBD NDIS FCoE and iSC...

Page 176: ...ted host Refresh Host Refreshes the selected host View menu Explorer View Displays hides the Explorer View pane Tool Bar Displays hides the tool bar Status Bar Displays hides the status bar Broadcom L...

Page 177: ...eter in the Context View pane Configuring Preferences in Windows To enable or disable the BACS tray icon in Windows On Windows systems BACS places an icon in the Windows taskbar when the program is in...

Page 178: ...sed to configure the host if it is different than the default value of 5985 6 Type the User name and Password 7 Select Persist if you want BACS to save the information for this host The host will appe...

Page 179: ...vailable if iSCSI is enabled on the host Name Displays the iSCSI initiator name in IQN format Portal List Displays all iSCSI portal IP addresses configured on the selected host NOTE Some information m...

Page 180: ...ters from the following tabs Information Configuration Viewing Adapter Information Select the network adapter in the Explorer View pane and then select the Information tab to view adapter level inform...

Page 181: ...for the first port is 0 and the function number for the second port is 1 Interrupt Request The interrupt line number that is associated with the adapter Valid numbers range from 2 to 25 Memory Address...

Page 182: ...on Select a port to configure and then click Next Flow Control The possible values are Auto Tx Pause Rx Pause Tx Rx pause and Disable The configuration is done at the port level and applies to all fun...

Page 183: ...alled in your system such as the link status of the adapter and general network connectivity To view Vital Signs information for any installed network adapter select the name of the adapter listed in...

Page 184: ...ill be used by the management firmware for packets destined for hosts external to the local network segment Link Status The status of the network link Up A link is established Down A link is not estab...

Page 185: ...f an iSCSI adapter is loaded onto the system the iSCSI MAC address will appear Flow Control The flow control setting of the port Physical Link Speed The physical link speed of the port either 1G or 10...

Page 186: ...LI command to perform a network diagnostic test for the specified target This command is available for NDIS and virtual adapters BACScli t target type f target format i target ID networkdiag p IP addr...

Page 187: ...the tests from Number of loops 5 Click Run test s 6 In the error message window that warns of the network connection being temporarily interrupted click Yes The results are displayed in the Result fie...

Page 188: ...rget ID diag c REG c MII c EEP c MEM c CPU c INT c MACLB c PHYLB c LED c ALL l cnt v LEDIntv Examples 1 The following command displays all the diagnostics tests available for the current selected targ...

Page 189: ...ing an analysis This option is not available for NetXtreme II 10 GbE network adapters This option is not available for all Broadcom network adapters This option is available for Broadcom NetXtreme II...

Page 190: ...erference The testing environment may affect the test results To run a cable analysis using BACS CLI You can use the following CLI commands to run cable analysis for the specified target This command...

Page 191: ...ade by others Some information may not be available for all Broadcom network adapters Viewing Driver Information Information Tab Driver Information Driver Status The status of the adapter driver Loade...

Page 192: ...Large Send Offload LSO prevents an upper level protocol such as TCP from breaking a large data packet into a series of smaller packets with headers appended to them CO Checksum Offload CO allows the T...

Page 193: ...ceipt or transmission of PAUSE frames PAUSE frames allow the network adapter and a switch to control the transmit rate The side that is receiving the PAUSE frame momentarily stops transmitting By enab...

Page 194: ...vailable for Broadcom NetXtreme II adapters Jumbo Packet Enables the network adapter to transmit and receive oversized Ethernet frames that are greater than 1514 bytes but less than or equal to 9000 b...

Page 195: ...aracters than what is entered which could result in an invalid MAC address If you assign an address confirm the assigned address using the ipconfig utility at the DOS prompt Receive Side Scaling Allow...

Page 196: ...ake Up Frame as wake up frames Magic Packet Selects Magic Packet as the wake up frame None Selects no wake up frame Wake Up Frame Selects Wake Up Frame as the wake up frame and allows the network adap...

Page 197: ...ady be breached since this connection type is not typical in a VLAN environment If the risk above is not desirable and filtering of VLAN ID membership is required then support through an intermediate...

Page 198: ...ent priorities to different applications Recv Segment Coalescing IPv4 Enable Receive Segment Coalescing IPv4 Receive Segment Coalescing is an offload technology that reduces CPU utilization for networ...

Page 199: ...re Enable Disable and Auto default If Chimney Offload State is configured for Auto then a 10 Gbps network adapter will have TOE enabled but not for a 1 Gbps network adapter To enable TOE for individua...

Page 200: ...equence FCS length or alignment errors nor frames lost due to internal MAC sublayer errors This counter is incremented when the receive status is reported as Receive OK Directed Frames Tx A count of d...

Page 201: ...on as belonging to an iSCSI session Login Accept Responses The number of login requests accepted by the target Login other failed Responses The number of login requests that were not accepted by the t...

Page 202: ...for the named session PDU sent The number of iSCSI PDUs sent for the named session PDU received The number of iSCSI PDUs received for the named session Digest errors The number of errors due to an in...

Page 203: ...h a size less than 64 bytes with bad FCS MAC Rx w Pause Command and Length 0 MAC control frames with the pause command and a length equal to 0 MAC Rx w Pause Command and Length greater than 0 MAC cont...

Page 204: ...per technology See Table 1 for the maximum number of connections available for various configurations 2 Click First Come First Served to allow connections on a first come first served basis to any ena...

Page 205: ...iling over LiveLink mitigates such issues BASP is available only if a system has one or more Broadcom network adapters installed The TCP Offload Engine TOE Large Send Offload LSO and Checksum Offload...

Page 206: ...ne the team continues using the standby member rather than switching back to the primary member This type of team is supported only for situations in which the network cable is disconnected and reconn...

Page 207: ...m 9 5 2014 3 45 16 PM 2 To continue using the wizard click Next 3 Type the team name and then click Next If you want to review or change any of your settings click Back Click Cancel to discard your se...

Page 208: ...Xtreme II Network Adapter User Guide for more information about this feature 6 If the team type is an SLB type team click Next If the team type is not an SLB type team then a dialog box appears Verify...

Page 209: ...e supported for the adapter The TOE LSO Jumbo MTU and CO properties are enabled for a team only when all of the members support and are configured for the feature If this is the case then the team off...

Page 210: ...he adapters as a standby member optional select Use the following member as a standby member then choose the standby member from the list of adapters 9 The Auto Fallback Disable mode feature allows th...

Page 211: ...the probe target at the top of the list click Edit Target IP Address type the target IP address in the IP Address box for one or all probe targets and then click OK Click Next NOTE Only the first pro...

Page 212: ...emeII English bacs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 16 PM 16 Type the VLAN name and then click Next NOTE The team name cannot exceed 39 characters cannot begin with spaces and cannot contain any of the following cha...

Page 213: ..._S Documents NetXtremeII English bacs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 16 PM add additional VLANs see Step 19 of this procedure 18 Type the VLAN tag value and then click Next The value must be between 1 and 4094 19...

Page 214: ...d 1 VLAN that is not tagged Adding several VLANS may slow down the reaction time of the Windows interface due to memory and processor time usage for each VLAN The degree to which Windows performance m...

Page 215: ...OTE At any point in the Broadcom Teaming Wizard procedure click Preview to get a visual representation of what the team will look like before committing any changes 21 Click the team name in the Team...

Page 216: ...menu In the Options window click the General tab then select Expert Mode or Wizard Mode the default is Wizard Mode Creating a Team NOTE Enabling Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP is not recomme...

Page 217: ...e TOE Large Send Offload LSO and Checksum Offload CO columns indicate if the TOE LSO and or the CO properties are supported for the adapter The TOE LSO and CO properties are enabled for a team only wh...

Page 218: ...o the load balance members from the standby member click the Fallback button on the Team Properties tab When configuring an SLB team although connecting team members to a hub is supported for testing...

Page 219: ...have one network adapter that can belong to multiple subnets With a VLAN you can couple the functionality of load balancing for the load balance members and you can employ a failover adapter You can...

Page 220: ...AN to delete 2 From the Teams menu select Remove VLAN 3 Click Apply 4 Click Yes when the message is displayed indicating that the network connection will be temporarily interrupted NOTE If you delete...

Page 221: ...0 is equivalent to an untagged network 7 Select Probe Target 1 and type the target IP address for one or all probe targets NOTE Only the first probe target is required You can specify up to 3 additio...

Page 222: ...BACSCLI also allows you the ability to team network adapters together for load balancing and failover For a complete list of available commands and examples see the BACSCLI ReadMe text file on the Del...

Page 223: ...stem MS DOS 6 22 Software uxdiag exe BCM5708 BCM5709 or uediag exe BCM57710 Performing Diagnostics At the MS DOS prompt type uxdiag for BCM5708 BCM5709 network adapters or uediag for BCM577XX and BCM5...

Page 224: ...isable uxdiag mbavval n Sets MBA VLAN 65536 uxdiag mfw 1 0 Enables disables management firmware 1 Enable 0 Disable uxdiag t groups tests Disables certain groups tests uxdiag T groups tests Enables cer...

Page 225: ...Enable 0 Disable uediag t groups tests Disables certain groups tests uediag T groups tests Enables certain groups tests uediag ver Displays the version of Broadcom NetXtreme II User Diagnostics uedia...

Page 226: ...on chip CPUs It also exercises the DMA interface exposed to those CPUs The internal CPU tries to initiate DMA activities both read and write to system memory and then compares the values to confirm th...

Page 227: ...opback mode in the adapter and transmits 5000 Layer 2 packets of various sizes As the packets are received back by Broadcom NetXtreme II User Diagnostics they are checked for errors Packets are return...

Page 228: ...s specified in ISO IEC 11801 2002 and ANSI EIA TIA 568 B 2 Category 5 is the minimum requirement Category 5e and Category 6 are fully supported Table 2 10GBASE T Cable Specifications Port Type Connect...

Page 229: ...Brocade 58 1000027 01 p n 48V40 Brocade 58 1000023 01 p n C4D08 Force10 1m DAC Amphenol 599700002 Amphenol 616740001 p n 53HVN Force10 3m DAC Amphenol 599700006 Amphenol 616740003 p n 5CN56 Force10 5...

Page 230: ...stics PCI Table 8 NIC Physical Characteristics NIC Type NIC Length NIC Width BCM5708 PCI Express 14 7 cm 5 79 inches 6 4 cm 2 52 inches BCM5709 BCM5716 PCI Express x4 low profile 11 9 cm 4 7 inches 6...

Page 231: ...NIC Power Requirements Link NIC 12V Current Draw A NIC 3 3V Current Draw A NIC Power W 1 Idle no link 0 58 0 004 6 88 100BASE T link 0 67 0 004 8 07 1000BASE T link 0 83 0 004 9 90 10GBASE T link 1 37...

Page 232: ...o 185 F Relative humidity 5 to 85 noncondensing 40 C 16 hour dwells at extremes 5 to 95 noncondensing 10 C hour Altitude Up to 10 000 ft Up to 35 000 ft Shock 10g 1 2 sine wave 11 ms 60g 1 2 sine wave...

Page 233: ...4006G Environmental Specifications Parameter Condition Operating Temperature 0 C to 60 C Air Flow Requirement LFM 100 Storage Temperature 40 C to 65 C Storage Humidity 5 to 95 condensing Vibration and...

Page 234: ...igital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation The equipment generates uses an...

Page 235: ...will be required to correct the interference at your own expense These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a non residential installation However ther...

Page 236: ...709A0916G Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller BCM957710A1022G BCM957710A1021G BCM957711A1113G BCM957711A1102G BCM957840A4006G BCM957840A4007G Broadcom Corporation 190 Mathilda Place S...

Page 237: ...ina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM Class A Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Controller BCM95709A0916G Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller BCM9577...

Page 238: ...Regulatory Information Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM...

Page 239: ...Regulatory Information Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM...

Page 240: ...Regulatory Information Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM...

Page 241: ...Regulatory Information Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM...

Page 242: ...Corporation 190 Mathilda Place Sunnyvale California 94086 USA This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES 003 Notice The Industry Canada regulations provide that changes or modification...

Page 243: ...adienne ICES 003 Avis Dans le cadre des r glementations d Industry Canada vos droits d utilisation de cet quipement peuvent tre annul s si des changements ou modifications non express ment approuv s p...

Page 244: ...M95708A0804F BCM95709A0907G BCM95709A0906G Broadcom Corporation 190 Mathilda Place Sunnyvale California 94086 USA Note that this device has been approved for non business purposes and may be used in a...

Page 245: ...apter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM BCM957711A1113G BCM957711A1102G BCM957810A1008G BCM957840A4006G BCM957840A4007G Broadcom Corporation...

Page 246: ...ntroller and the BCM957710A1023G E02D001 and BCM957711A1123G E03D001 Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers have received the following regulatory compliance certifications FCC Class A...

Page 247: ...e in a non residential installation However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference with radio or televisi...

Page 248: ...2014 3 45 21 PM CE Notice Class A Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Controller BCM95709SA0908G Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller BCM957710A1023G BCM957711A1123G E03D001 E02D001...

Page 249: ...Regulatory Information Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM...

Page 250: ...Regulatory Information Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM...

Page 251: ...Regulatory Information Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide file C Users Nalina_N_S Documents NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM...

Page 252: ...BCM957711A1123G E03D001 E02D001 Dell Inc Worldwide Regulatory Compliance Engineering and Environmental Affairs One Dell Way PS4 30 Round Rock Texas 78682 USA 512 338 4400 This Class A digital apparatu...

Page 253: ...s Dans le cadre des r glementations d Industry Canada vos droits d utilisation de cet quipement peuvent tre annul s si des changements ou modifications non express ment approuv s par Dell Inc y sont a...

Page 254: ...cuments NetXtremeII English regs htm 9 5 2014 3 45 21 PM End of Dell provided certification information The remainder of this document conforms to the general Restrictions and Disclaimers listed at th...

Page 255: ...gnostic tests are available for testing the adapter hardware These tests provide access to the adapter internal external diagnostics where packet information is transmitted across the physical link fo...

Page 256: ...checklist provides recommended actions to take to resolve problems installing the Broadcom NetXtreme II adapter or running it in your system Inspect all cables and connections Verify that the cable c...

Page 257: ...yet booted the modinfo command will not show the updated driver information Instead you can view the logs to verify that the proper driver is loaded and will be active upon reboot dmesg grep i Broadco...

Page 258: ...nd to a virtual network OS limitation IPv6 CO parent and child partition No Yes Yes When bound to a virtual network OS limitation IPv6 TOE No No No OS limitation Jumbo frames No Yes Yes OS limitation...

Page 259: ...le 2 Configurable Teamed Network Adapter Hyper V Features Feature Supported in Windows Server Version Comments Limitation 2008 2008 R2 2012 Smart Load Balancing and Failover SLB team type Yes Yes Yes...

Page 260: ...configuration and then rebind the team s VNICs to the guest OS This can be done in the Hyper V Manager Configuring VMQ with SLB Teaming When Hyper V server is installed on a system configured to use S...

Page 261: ...erties from your system s Network Connections Either delete the old addresses and type in new IPv6 addresses or select the option to automatically obtain IP addresses Problem Adding an NLB enabled Net...

Page 262: ...itions would come up and an error indicating a shortage of space would display Solution On architectures where the default vmalloc size is relatively small and not sufficient to load many interfaces u...

Page 263: ...network adapters that support a link speed of 10 Gbps the system performance performs at less than optimal levels Solution If Jumbo MTU is set to 5000 bytes or greater ensure that Flow Control is set...

Page 264: ...rk adapter is connected back to back to a switch MTU 9000 and Tx and Rx Flow Control are enabled Solution When enable_cu_rate_limiter is enabled the device performs flow control in the catchup path to...

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