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VMware Driver Parameter Defaults
lists the VMware driver parameter default values.
vxlan_filter_en
Enables (
1
) or disables (
0
) the VXLAN filtering based on the outer MAC, the
inner MAC, and the VXLAN network (VNI), directly matching traffic to a spe-
cific queue. The default is
vxlan_filter_en=1
. You can specify multiple
values delimited by commas for multiport or multifunction configurations.
enable_vxlan_offld
Enables (
1
) or disables (
0
) the VXLAN tunneled traffic checksum offload and
TCP segmentation offload (TSO) capability. The default is
enable_vxlan_offld=1
. You can specify multiple values delimited by
commas for multiport or multifunction configurations.
Table 3-7. VMware Driver Parameter Defaults
Parameter
Default
Speed
Autonegotiation with all speeds advertised. The speed
parameter must be the same on all ports. If auto-
negotiation is enabled on the device, all of the device
ports will use autonegotiation.
Flow Control
Autonegotiation with RX and TX advertised
MTU
1,500
(range
46–9,600
)
Rx Ring Size
8,192
(range
128–8,192
)
Tx Ring Size
8,192
(range
128–8,192
)
MSI-X
Enabled
Transmit Send Offload
(TSO)
Enabled
Large Receive Offload
(LRO)
Enabled
RSS
Numbered value
HW VLAN
Enabled
Number of Queues
Numbered value
Wake on LAN (WoL)
Disabled
Table 3-6. VMware NIC Driver Optional Parameters (Continued)
Parameter
Description
