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BIND IP BASP_1_V2_EII ADDR=192.168.2.200 MASK=255.255.255.0 

BIND IP BASP_1_V3_EII ADDR=192.168.3.200 MASK=255.255.255.0 
BIND IP BASP_1_V4_EII ADDR=192.168.4.200 MASK=255.255.255.0 

 
mount all  

NOTE: If you modify any adapter parameters, you must reboot the system before the 

changes takes effect. If you make changes and do not reboot, you may experience 

configuration problems.   

Example of Multiple SLB TEAMs with Multiple Frame Types

   

LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_EII VSLOT=1 
LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=BASP_1_E82 VSLOT=1 

LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_2_EII VSLOT=2 

LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3 NAME=BASP_2_E83 VSLOT=2 

LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_1_EII SLOT=1 
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_1_E82 SLOT=1 

LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_2_EII SLOT=2 

LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=B57_2_E82 SLOT=2 

LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_3_EII SLOT=3 
LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3 NAME=B57_3_E83 SLOT=3 

LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=B57_4_EII SLOT=4 

LOAD B57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3 NAME=B57_4_E83 SLOT=4 
BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_1_EII 

BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_2_EII 

BASP BIND BASP_2_EII B57_3_EII 
BASP BIND BASP_2_EII B57_4_EII 

BIND IP BASP_1_EII ADDR=172.16.1.100 MASK=255.255.0.0 

BIND IPX BASP_1_E82 NET=ABAB 
BIND IP BASP_2_EII ADDR=172.18.1.100 MASK=255.255.0.0 

BIND IPX BASP_2_E83 NET=BEEF 

NOTE: When B57_1_EII is bound to BASP_1_EII, B57_1_E82 is also bound to 

BASP_1_E82. IPX load balance works only with an all-Broadcom adapter or an all-Alteon 

adapter configuration. Values for VLSOT range from 1 to 4 (only four teams can be 

configured).   

Example of VLAN with BASP

   

Summary of Contents for DGE-560SX

Page 1: ...D Link NetXtreme DGE 560SX User Guide Gigabit Fiber LC PCI Express Server Adapter ...

Page 2: ...9 Chapter 3 Installing the Driver Software 20 3 1 Creating a Driver Disk 20 3 2 Broadcom Boot Agent Driver Software 20 3 2 1 Overview 21 3 2 2 Setting Up MBA in a Client Environment 22 3 2 3 Setting Up MBA in a Server Environment 25 3 3 NDIS2 Driver Software 26 3 3 1 Preinstallation Requirements 26 3 3 2 Installing the NDIS2 Driver Software for Use on MS DOS Platforms 26 3 3 3 Installing the DOS N...

Page 3: ...evice Drivers 76 Chapter 4 Installing Management Applications 77 4 1 Installing Broadcom Advanced Control Suite and Related Management Applications 77 4 1 1 Using the Installer 77 4 1 2 Using Silent Installation 78 4 2 Modifying Management Applications 79 4 3 Repairing Management Applications 80 4 4 Removing Management Applications 80 Chapter 5 Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4 81 5 1 Broadc...

Page 4: ...ot Agent 147 7 6 5 Broadcom Advanced Server Program BASP 147 7 6 6 Miscellaneous 148 Information in this document is subject to change without notice 2011 Broadcom Corporation All rights reserved Broadcom the pulse logo Connecting everything the Connecting everything logo NetXtreme Ethernet Wirespeed LiveLink and Smart Load Balancing are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and or its affi...

Page 5: ... network load balancing and fault tolerance functionality See Teaming and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Teaming Services for detailed information about teaming See Virtual LANs for a description of VLANs See Configuring Teaming for instructions on configuring teaming and creating VLANs on Windows and NetWare operating systems 1 1 1 Features The following is a list of the D Link NetXtreme Gigabit Ether...

Page 6: ...When traffic is light the adapter driver interrupts the host for each received packet minimizing latency When traffic is heavy the adapter issues one host interrupt for multiple back to back incoming packets preserving host CPU cycles Broadcom Advanced Control Suite Broadcom Advanced Control Suite BACS a component of the Broadcom teaming software is an integrated utility that provides useful infor...

Page 7: ...ows Server 2008 and NetWare operating systems For Windows operating systems BASP is configured through the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite BACS utility For NetWare operating systems teams are configured by loading BASP with all the necessary frames for the team For Linux operating systems teaming is done with channel bonding BASP supports four types of load balancing teams Smart Load Balancing and...

Page 8: ...EC 802 3ad Draft Static SLB Auto Fallback Disable Linux Team adapters using the bonding kernel module and a channel bonding interface See your Red Hat documentation for more information NetWare Smart Load Balancing Link Aggregation 802 3ad Generic Trunking Smart Load Balancing and Failover Smart Load Balancing and Failover is the Broadcom implementation of load balancing based on IP flow This feat...

Page 9: ...he link partners must be in active mode Generic Trunking FEC GEC 802 3ad Draft Static The Generic Trunking FEC GEC 802 3ad Draft Static type of team is very similar to the Link Aggregation 802 3ad type of team in that all adapters in the team are configured to receive packets for the same MAC address The Generic Trunking FEC GEC 802 3ad Draft Static type of team however does not provide LACP or ma...

Page 10: ...e in the event that a network connection fails If the primary adapter in a team is disconnected because of failure of the adapter cable or switch port the secondary team member becomes active redirecting both inbound and outbound traffic originally assigned to the primary adapter Sessions will be maintained causing no impact to the user Limitations of Smart Load Balancing and Failover SLB Auto Fal...

Page 11: ... other switch vendor s Link Aggregation mode The Generic Trunking type of team is protocol independent and all traffic should be load balanced and fault tolerant NOTE If you do not enable LiveLink when configuring teams disabling Spanning Tree Protocol STP at the switch is recommended This minimizes the downtime due to the spanning tree loop determination when failing over LiveLink mitigates such ...

Page 12: ...rview Virtual LANs VLANs allow you to split your physical LAN into logical parts to create logical segmentation of workgroups and to enforce security policies for each logical segment Each defined VLAN behaves as its own separate network with its traffic and broadcasts isolated from the others increasing bandwidth efficiency within each logical group Up to 64 VLANs 63 tagged and 1 untagged can be ...

Page 13: ...ain Server the Accounting Server and PC 4 This VLAN is an accounting group Main Server A high use server that needs to be accessed from all VLANs and IP subnets The Main Server has a Broadcom adapter installed All three IP subnets are accessed via the single physical adapter interface The server is attached to one of the switch ports which is configured for VLANs 1 2 and 3 Both the adapter and the...

Page 14: ... adapters 1 3 2 Adding VLANs to Teams Each team supports up to 64 VLANs 63 tagged and 1 untagged Note that only Broadcom adapters and Alteon AceNIC adapters can be part of a team with VLANs With multiple VLANs on an adapter a server with a single adapter can have a logical presence on multiple IP subnets With multiple VLANs in a team a server can have a logical presence on multiple IP subnets and ...

Page 15: ...formation such as data packets transmitted and received for the physical virtual VLAN team adapters The alarm trap forwards information about the changes in configuration of the physical adapters participating in a team such as physical adapter link up down and adapter installed removed events To monitor this information an SNMP manager must load the Broadcom BASP MIB database files to allow monit...

Page 16: ...mber Function number To monitor this information a SNMP manager needs to load the Broadcom Extended information MIB file to allow monitoring of the information described above This file bcmif mib is included on the D Link NetXtreme adapter installation CD The monitored workstation requires the installation of the Broadcom Extended Information SNMP extensible agent bcmif dll and requires the Window...

Page 17: ...ts General PCI Express 2 0 Host Interface Microsoft Windows One of the following versions of Microsoft Windows Windows Server 2003 Family Windows Server 2008 Family Novell NetWare One of the following versions of Novell NetWare NetWare 4 2 NetWare 5 1 NetWare 6 0 or NetWare 6 5 with the latest support pack Linux NOTE The current version of the adapter driver has been tested on the latest Red Hat S...

Page 18: ...s o Verify that the system is powered OFF and unplugged before you touch internal components o Install or remove adapters in a static free environment The use of a properly grounded wrist strap or other personal antistatic devices and an antistatic mat is strongly recommended 2 3 Preinstallation Checklist 1 Verify that your server meets the hardware and software requirements listed under System Re...

Page 19: ...Open the system case and select any empty PCI Express slot If you do not know how to identify any of these PCI slots refer to your system documentation 3 Remove the blank cover plate from the slot that you selected 4 Align the adapter connector edge with the connector slot in the system 5 Applying even pressure at both corners of the card push the adapter card into the slot until it is firmly seat...

Page 20: ...isk 2 Insert the installation CD into your system CD ROM drive 3 If the CD does not automatically run then browse to the MakeDisk folder on the CD and double click Setup exe 4 Follow the onscreen instructions 5 Select the driver or drivers of choice Note that selecting multiple drivers results in creating multiple disks 6 Click Next 7 Click OK 8 If more than one driver was selected Setup Needs the...

Page 21: ... Linux universal driver binds seamlessly with the Broadcom Universal Network Driver Interface UNDI and provides a network interface in the Linux remotely booted client environment Intel APITEST The Broadcom PXE driver passes all API compliance test suites MS DOS UNDI The MS DOS Universal Network Driver Interface UNDI seamlessly binds with the Broadcom UNDI to provide a network device driver interf...

Page 22: ...bling the MBA Driver To enable or disable the MBA driver 1 Insert the driver source media in the CD ROM drive and boot up in DOS mode 2 Type drive dos utility where drive is the drive letter of the CD ROM drive NOTE The B57udiag exe file is on the installation CD 3 Type b57udiag mba 0 disable 1 enable c devnum where devnum is the specific device s number 0 1 2 to be programmed Specifying the MBA P...

Page 23: ...dos utility where drive is the drive letter of the CD ROM drive 3 Type b57udiag mbas 0 Auto 1 10HD 2 10FD 3 100H 4 100F c devnum where devnum is the specific device s number 0 1 2 to be programmed Configuring the MBA Driver NOTE You can use the MBA Configuration Menu to configure the MBA driver one adapter at a time as described below or you can use the D Link NetXtreme User Diagnostics MS DOS bas...

Page 24: ...ilable other boot protocols include Remote Program Load RPL and Bootstrap Protocol BOOTP NOTE If you have multiple adapters in your system and you are unsure which adapter you are configuring press CTRL F6 which causes the port LEDs on the adapter to start blinking 4 Use the UP ARROW DOWN ARROW LEFT ARROW and RIGHT ARROW keys to move to and change the values for other menu items as desired 5 Press...

Page 25: ...x Readme txt file for more information A remote boot does not require a standard Linux network driver for the D Link NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter After the PXE client downloads the Linux kernel and initial ram disk the Linux universal driver that came with the Linux distribution binds with the UNDI code of the PXE to form a Linux network driver NOTE Refer to the Distrib txt file on the insta...

Page 26: ... on your server 3 3 2 Installing the NDIS2 Driver Software for Use on MS DOS 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 Microsoft Network Client To perform this installation you must have the following items Windows NT Server 4 0 CD ROM A blank MS ...

Page 27: ... double click ncadmin exe 8 Follow the on screen instructions to make the network startup disk choose NE2000 Compatible from the list of adapters Modifying the Startup Disk To modify the startup disk 1 Edit A Net Protocol ini with Notepad or a similar text editor a Change DriverName to DriverName B57 b Remove all other parameter entries under the MS NE2CLONE or equivalent section such as IOBASE 0x...

Page 28: ...sport ms nwlink MS NWLINK lana0 ms ne2clone 1 ms nwlink lana1 ms ne2clone 1 ms ndishlp MS NE2CLONE DriverName B57 protman DriverName PROTMAN PRIORITY MS NDISHLP MS NDISHLP DriverName ndishlp BINDINGS ms ne2clone ms nwlink DriverName nwlink FRAME Ethernet_802 2 BINDINGS MS NE2CLONE LANABASE 0 Example Protocol ini file for NetBEUI network setup version 0x3110 netcard ms ne2clone 1 MS NE2CLONE 1 tran...

Page 29: ...BS 12 BINDINGS MS NE2CLONE LANABASE 0 2 Edit A Net System ini a Change netcard to netcard b57 dos b Check for references to C NET and change C NET to A NET if necessary Example System ini file network sizworkbuf 1498 filesharing no printsharing no autologon yes computername MYPC lanroot A NET username USER1 workgroup WORKGROUP reconnect yes dospophotkey N lmlogon 0 logondomain preferredredir basic...

Page 30: ...ath a net a net net initialize a net netbind com a net umb com a net tcptsr exe a net tinyrfc exe a net nmtsr exe a net emsbfr exe a net net start basic net use z SERVERNAME SHARENAME For IPX SET PATH A NET A NET net initialize A 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...

Page 31: ... file to this folder 4 Edit the Config sys file by adding the following lines DEVICE C LANMAN PROTMAN DOS DEVICE C LANMAN B57 DOS DEVICE C LANMAN NETBEUI DOS 5 Edit the Autoexec bat file by adding the following lines C LANMAN NETBIND EXE C LANMAN NET START WORKSTATION C LANMAN NET USE drive letter server name resource name 6 Edit the Protocol ini file located in C LANMAN to configure the driver to...

Page 32: ...apter the required NDIS2 protocol manager that supports multiple binds is not available in the MS DOS environment If it is necessary to have the NDIS2 driver load on certain adapters in a certain order the BusNum DevNum and FuncNum keywords can be used Do not use these keywords unless you know how to configure PCI devices The BusNum keyword value which represents the PCI bus number in which the ad...

Page 33: ...r copper links auto negotiation is the proper supported configuration under the IEEE Ethernet specification The Duplex keyword is used to force the duplex mode of the adapter The Duplex keyword requires a text string of either HALF or FULL When the Duplex keyword is used the LineSpeed keyword must also be used If neither keyword is used the network adapter defaults to auto negotiation mode The Nod...

Page 34: ...nstalled in the server and when a specific controller must be loaded in a certain 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 needed to find this information LineSpeed Specifies the speed of the network connection in Mbit s Requires the decimal number 10...

Page 35: ...ves the following steps 1 Verify that the MS DOS operating system files are installed on your system hard disk or are available on a removable storage device 2 Install the ODI driver software in the MS DOS environment 3 If necessary reconfigure the driver software after installation Preinstallation Requirements Verify that the D Link NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver software has been inst...

Page 36: ...DRIVER B57 FRAME ETHERNET_802 2 FRAME ETHERNET_802 3 FRAME ETHERNET_II FRAME ETHERNET_SNAP NetWare DOS Requester FIRST NETWORK DRIVE F NETWARE PROTOCOL NDS BIND PROTOCOL IPXODI 5 Restart the computer to complete the install 6 As the files are being loaded the computer attempts to attach to a NetWare server using the frame types specified in Net cfg If the connection is successful a dialog box appe...

Page 37: ...bus number and DEVNUM specifies the device number that is assigned to the adapter when it is configured by the PCI BIOS The values for these adapter parameters are displayed in hexadecimal notation when the driver loads the Net cfg file expects hexadecimal values A PCI device scan utility can also be used to find this information If the driver loads on a single adapter the displayed values can be ...

Page 38: ...e one set in MODEL The driver ignores all other adapters that do not have a matching SVID MODEL expects a decimal number Example LINK DRIVER B44 MODEL 534 3 5 Linux Driver Software 3 5 1 Limitations The current version of the adapter driver has been tested on the latest Red Hat SuSE and other Linux distributions for i386 ia64 and x86_64 CPU architectures using 2 4 x and 2 6 x kernels The driver ha...

Page 39: ... for different Linux distributions cd usr src redhat OpenLinux turbo packages rpm rpm bb SPECS tg3 spec or rpmbuild bb SPECS tg3 spec rpmbuild bb SPECS tg3 spec for RPM version 4 x x NOTE During your attempt to install a source RPM package the following message may be displayed error cannot create sourcedir usr src redhat SOURCE The most likely cause of the error is that the rpm build package has ...

Page 40: ...pecific documentation Building the Driver from the Source TAR File 1 Create a directory tg3 version and extract the TAR files to the directory tar xvzf tg3 version tgz 2 Build the driver tg3 o as a loadable module for the running kernel CD tg3 version make clean make make install 3 Test the driver by loading it rmmod tg3 modprobe tg3 No message should be returned if this command runs properly NOTE...

Page 41: ...pported devices a number of files containing PCI vendor and device information may need to be updated Apply the updates by running the scripts provided in the Supplemental tar file For example on Red Hat Enterprise Linux apply the updates by doing the following patch_pcitbl sh usr share hwdata pcitable pci updates usr share hwdata pcitable new patch_pciids sh usr share hwdata pci ids pci updates u...

Page 42: ...river If there is an interface configuration that is related to the tg3 driver then bring the interface down first by using ifconfig ethx down and then rmod tg3 3 5 7 Driver Messages The following are the most common sample messages that may be logged in the var log messages file Use dmesg nlevel to control the level at which messages appear on the console Most systems are set to level 6 by defaul...

Page 43: ...used with your Novell NetWare system Before you can successfully install the adapter driver for Novell NetWare the adapter card must be physically installed in the system and typically NetWare operating system software must already be running on the system Make sure that your system meets the hardware and operating system software requirements described in Installing the Hardware To enable the D L...

Page 44: ...OTE The following instructions are for installing Novell NetWare Server 5 1 or 6 0 driver software For instructions on installing Novell NetWare Server 6 5 driver software see Installing NetWare Server 6 5 Driver Software Verify that the system has the latest support pack available installed See Table 1 for information on obtaining the latest support pack for your version You may want to create an...

Page 45: ...erformance it allows the installation of the operating system and up to 8 adapters during initial installation process After you complete the installation increase the number of buffers allocated to the driver as described in Viewing or Modifying Adapter Properties 12 After NetWare 5 1 6 0 has been successfully installed set the minimum packet Receive Buffers property in the Startup ncf file to 15...

Page 46: ...ptions scroll down to select Modify and then press ENTER to change focus to detected devices 4 Scroll down to Network boards and press ENTER 5 From Additional Driver Options scroll down to Modify and then press ENTER 6 Insert the CD or archive floppy disk you created and then select the Add option by pressing INSERT 7 Select the Install an unlisted driver option by pressing INSERT 8 If you inserte...

Page 47: ...bed below Configuration Properties for the B57 lan driver TxDescriptors Initializes Descriptor resources on the adapter for transmits Min 100 Max 512 Default 120 RxBuffers This is to pre allocate receive ECBs Receive adapter resources This setting may be affected by the NetWare Server maximum minimum packet receive buffer settings Min 32 Max 1000 Default 200 Speed This keyword forces the line spee...

Page 48: ...h using the speed keyword as an advertised speed upper limit It is best to allow for auto negotiation of the adapter and switch by not setting this keyword or the Speed keyword AUTO FORCE The default is AUTO When set to FORCE auto negotiation is disabled and the link speed is forced to a specific value RxTicks Enables the use of batching receives within a specific time period Min 0 disabled Max 50...

Page 49: ...ault value is 20 RxPacketsPer Enables allowing an interrupt to occur after a specific amount of packets is received Min 0 disabled Max 100 The default value is 75 CheckSum Enables or disables the transmit and receive checksum offload feature Checksum offload support is only for TCP IP packets therefore the default setting for checksum offload is OFF OFF ON TX RX TxFlow This keyword allows enabling...

Page 50: ...wap with an adapter that is exactly the same OFF default ON NODE Allows an input Ethernet node address to replace the adapter factory programmed Ethernet node address until a subsequent reboot NODE nnnnnnnnnnnn FRAME Specifies the frame type The default value is ETHERNET_802 2 ETHERNET_II ETHERNET_802 3 ETHERNET_802 2 ETHERNET_SNAP SLOT Used to set a system wide unique hardware instance number HIN...

Page 51: ...cket size 18000 P3 This keyword is used when running Perform3 exe tests and may be used to increase performance on networks running with many IPX clients P3 1 when running the Perform3 test back to back to a single client P3 2 when running the Perform3 test with many clients The default setting is P3 0 Spuriousfix When this keyword is set to 1 Spurious Fix is ON the spurious interrupts count that ...

Page 52: ...00 Mbit s 0 OFF 1 ON default Model Allows the addition of a subsystem ID of a specific adapter so that the driver loads only on the first adapter found with a matching subsystem ID For example Model 0x14E4 The default value is 0 Fiber The driver has support for the 1000FD fiber adapter The fiber auto negotiates link with a fiber switch even though it only supports 1000FD In some cases the user may...

Page 53: ...RNM LOAD TCPIP LOAD B57 SLOT 2 FRAME Ethernet_802 2 NAME B57_1_E82 BIND IPX B57_1_E82 NET FAFD3D25 LOAD B57 SLOT 2 FRAME Ethernet_802 3 NAME B57_1_E83 BIND IPX B57_1_E83 NET 5A2D8D6D LOAD B57 SLOT 2 FRAME Ethernet_SNAP NAME B57_1_ESP BIND IPX B57_1_ESP NET 477A35BD LOAD B57 SLOT 2 FRAME Ethernet_II NAME B57_1_EII BIND IPX B57_1_EII NET C3C8F2E4 BIND IP B57_1_EII ADDR 172 16 1 1 MASK ff ff ff 0 mou...

Page 54: ...rance and VLAN features These features are provided by creating teams virtual adapters that consist of multiple NIC interfaces A team can consist of one to six eight on some systems NIC interfaces and each interface can be designated primary or standby All primary interfaces in a team will participate in Load balancing operations by sending and receiving a portion of the total traffic Standby inte...

Page 55: ...itch to support some form of port trunking mode Cisco s Gigabit EtherChannel or other switch vendor s link aggregation mode Trunking mode must be statically configured on the switch ports that are connected to the team This mode is protocol independent and all traffic should be load balanced and fault tolerant The IEEE 802 3ad mode requires the Ethernet switch to support IEEE 802 3ad with LACP Lin...

Page 56: ...the BASP LAN driver and create a team by binding the adapter to the virtual slot see the following instructions and examples In the Virtual Adapter X Team Members console the link status of all bound adapters is shown Disconnect or connect the adapter cable If the adapter driver supports NESL events the link status should change immediately Loading Broadcom Advanced Server Program 1 Load the BASP ...

Page 57: ...ied by Novell before all network drivers are loaded Example LOAD ODINEB NLM LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_1_EII SLOT 1 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_2_EII SLOT 2 After BASP LAN is successfully loaded a new screen similar to the one above appears This screen displays all virtual adapter settings and statistics Press ALT ESC to switch back to the console and continue with step 3 ...

Page 58: ... the virtual and the physical adapters it is necessary to bind only one frame type on the virtual adapter to the same frame type on the physical adapter The other frame types are automatically bound 2 Bind protocols to BASP LAN Example BIND IP BASP_1_EII ADDR x x x x MASK x x x x ...

Page 59: ... Command Line Interface CLI UNLOAD B57 The response is Module B57 LAN unloaded For the BASP driver at the Command Line Interface CLI UNLOAD BASP The response is Module BASP LAN unloaded NOTE BASP can not be unloaded if one or more adapters are bound to BASP Configuring Teaming NOTES o Spanning Tree Protocol should be disabled on all switch ports to which teamed adapters are connected o If remote m...

Page 60: ...r driver supports NESL events Load the BASP LAN driver and create a team by binding the adapter to the virtual slot Disconnect or connect the adapter cable The link status of each bound adapter is shown on the Virtual Adapter X Team Members screen of the BASP LAN menu interface If the adapter driver supports NESL events the displayed link status shown on the screen should change immediately In IEE...

Page 61: ... in the BASP bind command to bind an adapter as a hot standby member Example BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_1_EII BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_2_EII STANDBY In the above example B57_1_EII and B57_2_EII are bound as primary and hot standby members respectively Note that a standby member can be used only on a Smart Load Balancing type of team NOTE No traffic is passed to the standby member until the primary m...

Page 62: ...ded in step 1 needs to be loaded only once for each network driver even if it is loaded multiple times with different VLAN IDs in step 1 Only Broadcom and Alteon NIC adapters can be used The ALT LAN driver must be version 2 05b or later released by Broadcom and must include the keyword FORVLANS Example Broadcom adapters LOAD ODINEB NLM LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_1_EII SLOT 1 LOAD B57 ...

Page 63: ...N ID The following are examples of multiple VLAN configurations LOAD BASP FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME BASP_1_V100_EII VSLOT 1 VLAN 100 LOAD BASP FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME BASP_1_V200_EII VSLOT 1 VLAN 200 LOAD BASP FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME BASP_1_V300_EII VSLOT 1 VLAN 300 LOAD ODINEB NLM LOAD B57 FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_1_EII SLOT 1 LOAD B57 FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_2_EII SLOT 2 BASP BIND BASP_1_V100_EI...

Page 64: ..._1_EII BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_2_EII Additional Command Line Keywords CHECKSUM ON Enables BASP LAN to offload TCP UDP and IP checksums to the bound adapters if supported by the operating system This setting improves performance if some or all adapters in the team support hardware checksums Be sure to load the adapter drivers with hardware checksums enabled Example A team of two BCM5700 NICs with ...

Page 65: ... 2 NAME BASP_1_E82 VSLOT 1 VLAN 0 Editing the Autoexec ncf File When an adapter configuration is saved the NetWare install program adds load and bind statements to the Autoexec ncf file By accessing this file you can verify the parameters configured for each adapter add or delete parameters or modify parameters A valid autoexec ncf file is shown below with various VLAN and teaming examples Example...

Page 66: ...E BASP_1_V2_EII VSLOT 1 VLAN 2 LOAD BASP LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME BASP_1_V3_EII VSLOT 1 VLAN 3 LOAD BASP LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME BASP_1_V4_EII VSLOT 1 VLAN 4 Load the network drivers for the NIC adapters in the team with the same frame types and VLANs specified LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_1_EII SLOT 1 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_2_EII SLOT 2 Bind BASP LAN to the NIC ad...

Page 67: ...OAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_802 2 NAME B57_1_E82 SLOT 1 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_2_EII SLOT 2 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_802 2 NAME B57_2_E82 SLOT 2 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_3_EII SLOT 3 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_802 3 NAME B57_3_E83 SLOT 3 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_4_EII SLOT 4 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_802 3 NAME B57_4_E83 SLOT 4 BASP BIND BASP_1_E...

Page 68: ...LAN refers to the VLAN ID and valid value for VLAN ID ranges from 1 to 4094 Example of TRUNKING with BASP LOAD ODINEB NLM LOAD BASP LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME BASP_1_EII VSLOT 1 MODE TRUNK LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_1_EII SLOT 1 LOAD B57 LAN FRAME ETHERNET_II NAME B57_2_EII SLOT 2 BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_1_EII BASP BIND BASP_1_EII B57_2_EII BIND IP BASP_1_EII ADDR 172 16 210 1 MASK 2...

Page 69: ...the configuration On the Internetworking Configuration console 1 Select Board and then press ENTER 2 Press INSERT 3 Select a physical device driver such as B57 4 Press ENTER and then type a name such as B57_1 5 Press ESC and then select Yes to save the configuration Repeat steps 2 through 5 to configure another adapter Name subsequent adapters B57_2 B57_3 and so on 6 Press INSERT 7 Select a virtua...

Page 70: ...igured with the same frame types as the virtual team 1 Press INSERT to bind the physical adapter to a virtual team 2 Select User specified Protocol 3 Select A Network Interface and then press ENTER 4 Select a physical adapter B57 for example 5 Type BASP1 for Protocol 6 Select a frame type type any special parameters refer to B57 LAN readme txt for parameters press ESC then select Yes to save NOTES...

Page 71: ... as follows From the NetWare Server console command line interface type load bmapi nlm load bsnmp nlm SNMP Objects BASP SNMP objects are provided in the BASP Config MIB file which is on your installation CD The snmpget and snmpgetnext commands can be used to receive the BASP SNMP objects such as snmpget localhost public BASP Config MIB btTeamNumber snmpgetnext localhost public BASP Config MIB btTe...

Page 72: ...ith the latest service pack applied o A network device driver must be installed before the D Link NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter can be used with your Windows operating system Drivers are located on the installation CD Using the Installer 1 To install the D Link NetXtreme driversWhen Found New Hardware Wizard opens click Cancel 2 Insert the installation CD into the CD ROM or DVD drive 3 On the...

Page 73: ...form a silent install from within the installer source folder Type the following setup s v qn or msiexec i BDrvInst msi qn To perform a silent upgrade from within the installer source folder Type the following setup s v qn To perform a silent uninstall from within the installer source folder Type the following msiexec x BDrvInst msi qn To perform a silent uninstall from any folder Type the followi...

Page 74: ... Next 4 Click Finish to close the wizard 3 7 2 Updating the Driver Software To update the driver software 1 Start Windows and log on You must have administrative privileges to update the driver software 2 In Control Panel click System to view System Properties 3 Click the Hardware tab and then click Device Manager 4 Right click the name of the D Link NetXtreme 5718 Gigabit Ethernet Controller and ...

Page 75: ...rticular property NOTE You can also open Broadcom Advanced Control Suite in Control Panel 3 7 4 Setting Power Management Options You can set Power Management options to allow the operating system to turn off the adapter to save power If the device is busy doing something servicing a call for example however the operating system will not shut down the device The operating system attempts to shut do...

Page 76: ... power check box for any adapter that is a member of a team 3 7 5 Removing the Device Drivers 1 Open Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel 2 Click D Link NetXtreme Ethernet Controller and then click Remove 3 Click Yes to remove the drivers and management applications 4 Restart your system NOTE You can also remove the device drivers by running the InstallShield installer again and clicking Remove...

Page 77: ...er Program SNMP Installs the Simple Network Management Protocol subagent NOTES o Ensure that the Broadcom network adapter s is physically installed in the system before installing BACS o Before you begin the installation close all applications windows or dialog boxes 4 1 1 Using the Installer To install the management applications 1 Insert the installation CD into the CD or DVD drive 2 On the inst...

Page 78: ...stall uninstall s o For detailed instructions and information about unattended installs refer to the Silent txt file in the MgmtApps folder To perform a silent install or upgrade from within the installer source folder Type the following setup s v qn If performing a silent upgrade your system may reboot automatically To suppress the reboot type the following setup s v qn REBOOT ReallySuppress To p...

Page 79: ...res listed below NOTE CHM32 or CHM64 installs the BACS help file and must be included when installing the BACS feature setup s v qn ADDSOURCE BACSi32 CHM32 BASPi32 SNMPi32 CIMi32 To perform a silent install by feature on AMD64 EM64T platforms Type the following setup s v qn ADDSOURCE BACSa64 CHMa64 BASPa64 SNMPa64 To perform a silent install from within a batch file To perform a silent install fro...

Page 80: ... the management applications 1 In Control Panel double click Add or Remove Programs 2 Click Broadcom Management Programs and then click Change 3 Click Next to continue 4 Click Repair to repair errors in installed applications 5 Click Next to continue 6 Click Install 7 Click Finish to close the wizard 4 4 Removing Management Applications To remove all management applications 1 In Control panel doub...

Page 81: ...d balancing fault tolerance and virtual local area networks VLANs BASP functionality is available only on systems that use at least one Broadcom network adapter NOTES o This chapter introduces all functions of Broadcom Control Suite 4 designed for NetXtreme 57xx family However function supports depend on the chip chosen Please refer to adapter s specification for detail 5 2 Starting Broadcom Advan...

Page 82: ...the Explorer View pane is docked and pinned on the left side of the main window the Context View pane on the right the Context View selector below the menu bar and the Description pane below the Context View pane Drag the splitter between any two panes to vary the size of the panes Explorer View Pane You can dock and pin the Explorer View pane on the left side right side top or bottom of the main ...

Page 83: ... the Explorer View pane shows its status An icon next to a device name that appears normal means the device is connected and working X A red X that appears on the device s icon indicates the device is currently not connected to the network Greyed out A device icon that appears greyed out indicates the device is currently disabled Context View Selector The Context View selector appears below the me...

Page 84: ...he Context View pane Menu Bar The following appear on the menu bar but because the menu items are context sensitive not all items will be available at all times File menu Team Save As saves the current team configurations to a file Team Restore restores any saved team configuration from a file Action menu Remove Host removes the selected host Refresh Host refreshes the information for the selected...

Page 85: ... in the Windows taskbar when the program is installed Use the Options window to turn this icon on or off 1 From the Tools menu select Options 2 Select or clear Enable BACSTray the option is enabled by default 3 Click OK Setting the teaming mode 1 From the Tools menu select Options 2 Select Expert Mode if you do not need the assistance of the teaming wizard to create teams otherwise select Wizard M...

Page 86: ...ows are WMI WinRM or Try All The protocol options for Linux are CimXML WinRM or Try All The Try All option forces the GUI client to try all options 4 Select the HTTP scheme or the HTTPS scheme for added security 5 Type the Port Number value you used 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 th...

Page 87: ...on Tab Host Information Host Name Displays the name of the host OS Version Info Displays the operating system including the version Platform Displays the hardware architecture platform for example 32 bit or 64 bit To configure the host Select the host in the Explorer View pane and then select the Configuration tab to configure host level parameters ...

Page 88: ...work adapters appear one level below the host in the hierarchical tree in the Explorer View pane At the adapter level you can view information and configure parameters from the following tabs Information Configuration Viewing Adapter Information The Vital Signs section of the Information tab has useful information about the network adapters that are installed in your system such as the link status...

Page 89: ... by others o Some information may not be available for all Broadcom network adapters MAC Address A physical MAC media access control address that is assigned to the adapter by the manufacturer The physical address is never all 0s Permanent MAC Address The unique hardware address assigned to the network adapter IP Address The network address associated with the adapter If the IP address is all 0s t...

Page 90: ...ocol 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 TCP IP UDP checksums for send and receive traffic to be calculated by the adapter hardware rather than by the host CPU LiveLink IP Address The network address of the LiveLink enabled adapter Viewing Driver Information The Driver Information section of ...

Page 91: ...is functioning Not Loaded The driver associated with the adapter has not been loaded by Windows Information Not Available The value is not obtainable from the driver that is associated with the adapter Driver Name The file name of the adapter driver Driver Version The current version of the adapter driver Driver Date The creation date of the adapter driver ...

Page 92: ... of the adapter listed in the Explorer View pane then click the Information tab Note Some information may not be available for all Broadcom network adapters Bus Type The type of input output I O interconnect used by the adapter Slot No The slot number on the system board occupied by the adapter This item is not available for PCI Express type adapters Bus Speed MHz The bus clock signal frequency us...

Page 93: ...r 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 The memory mapped address that is assigned to the adapter This value can never be 0 Viewing Hardware Information The Hardware section of the Information tab displays information about the hardware ...

Page 94: ...or adapters made by others Firmware Version The firmware version of the Broadcom adapter this information is not available for adapters made by others This information is only available for D Link NetXtreme adapters Vendor ID The vendor ID Device ID The adapter ID Subsystem Vendor ID The subsystem vendor ID Subsystem ID ...

Page 95: ...est option is not available on adapters that are grouped into a team see Configuring Teaming To run the network test 1 Click the name of the adapter to test in the Explorer View pane 2 From the Select a test to run list select Network Test If the Network Test option is not available then from the Context View tab on the right side of the window select Diagnostics and then select Network Test 3 To ...

Page 96: ...tests are performed For example if a test is performed four times and there are no fails the value in the Result field for that test is 4 0 However if there were 3 passes and 1 fail the value in the Result field is 3 1 NOTES o You must have administrator privileges to run diagnostic tests o The network connection is temporarily lost while these tests are running o Some tests are not supported on a...

Page 97: ... the network connection being temporarily interrupted click Yes The results are displayed in the Result field for each test NOTES o DGE 560SX supports fiber interface and so the information of MII Registers LoopBack MAC and LoopBack PHY are not available The list of available properti Control Registers This test verifies the read and write capabilities of the network adapter registers by writing v...

Page 98: ...m stored in the EEPROM An EEPROM image upgrade does not require a code change for this test Internal Memory This test verifies that the internal memory of the adapter is functioning properly The test writes patterned values to the memory and reads back the results The test fails if an erroneous value is read back The adapter cannot function if its internal memory is not functioning properly On Chi...

Page 99: ... values for a property o The list of available properties for your particular adapter may be different o Some properties may not be available for all Broadcom network adapters To set adapter properties 1 Click the name of the adapter in the Explorer View pane and click the Configurations tab 2 From the Advanced section select the property you want to set 3 To change the value of a property select ...

Page 100: ...is property Otherwise problems may occur Ethernet Wirespeed Enables a Gigabit Ethernet adapter to establish a link at a lower speed when only two pairs of wires are available in the cabling plant The default setting for this property is Enabled Flow Control Enables or disables the receipt or transmission of PAUSE frames PAUSE frames allow the network adapter and a switch to control the transmit ra...

Page 101: ...the Large Send Offload property the TCP segmentation can be done by the network adapter The default setting for this property is Enabled Jumbo MTU Enables the network adapter to transmit and receive oversized Ethernet frames that are greater than 1514 bytes but less than or equal to 9000 bytes in length 9600 bytes for network adapters that operate at 10 Gbps This property requires the presence of ...

Page 102: ...defined MAC address that is used in place of the MAC address originally assigned to the network adapter Every adapter in the network must have its own unique MAC address This locally administered address consists of a 12 digit hexadecimal number Value Assigns a unique node address for the adapter Not Present default Uses the factory assigned node address on the adapter The appropriate assigned ran...

Page 103: ...LAN tagging only Note If an intermediate driver is managing the network adapter for VLAN tagging the Priority VLAN Disabled and Priority Enabled settings should not be used Use the Priority VLAN Enabled setting and change the VLAN ID to 0 zero VLAN ID Enables VLAN tagging and configures the VLAN ID when Priority VLAN Enabled is selected as the Priority VLAN setting The range for the VLAN ID is 1 t...

Page 104: ...r based on the premise of a properly configured network above the IP segmentation and or the switch VLAN configuration may provide additional filtration to limit the risk In a back to back connection scenario two computers on the same IP segment may be able to communicate regardless of their VLAN configuration since no filtration of VLAN membership is occurring However this scenario assumes that t...

Page 105: ...nvironment in which members are connected at different speeds favors members connected with a Gigabit Ethernet link over members connected at lower speed links 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps until a threshold is met This is normal behavior Team Types You can create four types of load balance teams Smart Load Balance and Failover Link Aggregation 802 3ad Generic Trunking FEC GEC 802 3ad Draft Static SLB Auto ...

Page 106: ...unking mechanism Trunking supports load balancing and failover for both outbound and inbound traffic SLB Auto Fallback Disable This team is identical to Smart Load Balance and Failover with the following exception when the standby member is active if a primary member comes back online the team continues using the standby member rather than switching back to the primary member This type of team is ...

Page 107: ...dcom Teaming Wizard to create a team configure an existing team if a team has already been created or create a VLAN 1 Create or edit a team To create a new team select Create a Team from the Team menu or right click one of the devices in the Unassigned Adapters section and select Create a Team This option is not available if there are no devices listed in the Unassigned Adapters sections which mea...

Page 108: ...The team name cannot exceed 39 characters cannot begin with spaces and cannot contain any of the following characters 4 Select the type of team you want to create 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 that the network switch connected to the team members is configured correctly for the team type click OK and contin...

Page 109: ...d 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 when all of the members support and are configured for the feature If this is the case then the team offload capabilities appear on the bottom of the screen Note Adding a network adapter to a team where its driver is disabled may negatively affect th...

Page 110: ...ber as a standby member then choose the standby member from the list of adapters 7 The Auto Fallback Disable mode feature allows the team to continue using the standby member rather than switching back to the primary member if the primary member comes back online To enable this feature select Enable Auto Fallback Disable mode Click Next ...

Page 111: ...he probe targets as well as the port s on the switch to which the team is connected Note Each LiveLink enabled team can only communicate with Probe Targets on a single VLAN Also VLAN ID 0 is equivalent to an untagged network If the Probe VLAN ID is set to a value other than 0 then a VLAN must be created with an identical VLAN tag value see Step 16 11 Click the probe target at the top of the list c...

Page 112: ...LAN select Edit VLAN then click Next If you do not want to create or edit a VLAN select Skip Manage VLAN then click Next and continue with the wizard from the Finish screen see Step 18 of this procedure VLANs enable you to add multiple virtual adapters that are on different subnets The benefit of this is that your system can have one network adapter that can belong to multiple subnets Note VLANs c...

Page 113: ...he VLAN select Tagged and then click Next Otherwise click Untagged click Next and continue with the wizard to add additional VLANs see Step 17 of this procedure 16 Type the VLAN tag value and then click Next The value must be between 1 and 4094 ...

Page 114: ...nage any additional VLANs Note You can define up to 64 VLANs per team 63 VLANs that are tagged and 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 may suffer depends on system configuration ...

Page 115: ...tem and Exit the wizard To apply your changes but continue using the wizard select Save changes and continue to manage more teams Click Finish Note 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 ...

Page 116: ...ink DGE 560SX User Guide 116 19 Click the team name in the Team Management pane to view the team s properties in the Information tab transfer and receive data in the Statistics tab 5 4 2 Using Expert Mode ...

Page 117: ... is Wizard Mode Creating a Team Note Enabling Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP is not recommended for members of an SLB type of team 1 From the Teams menu select Create Team or right click one of the devices in the Unassigned Adapters section and select Create a Team This option is not available if there are no devices listed in the Unassigned Adapters sections which means all adapters are...

Page 118: ...ist There must be at least one adapter selected in the Load Balance Members list 7 You can assign any other available adapter to be a standby member by selecting it from the Standby Member list Note There must be at least one Broadcom network adapter assigned to the team The Large Send Offload LSO Checksum Offload CO and RSS indicate if the LSO CO and or RSS properties are supported for the team T...

Page 119: ...cters cannot begin with spaces and cannot contain any of the following characters o Team names must be unique If you attempt to use a team name more than once an error message is displayed indicating that the name already exists o The maximum number of team members is 8 o When team configuration has been correctly performed a virtual team adapter driver is created for each configured team o If you...

Page 120: ... you have created a team you can modify the team in the following ways Change the type of team Change the members assigned to the team Add a VLAN Modify a VLAN using Expert Mode Remove a team or a VLAN using Expert Mode To modify a team 1 From the Team menu click Edit Team or right click one of the teams in the list and select Edit Team This option is only available if a team has already been crea...

Page 121: ...You can add virtual LANs VLANs to a team This enables you to add multiple virtual adapters that are on different subnets The benefit of this is that your system can 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 define up to 64 VLANs per team 63 VL...

Page 122: ... they can be selected from the Team Name list but they have not yet been created 7 Continue this process until all VLANs are defined then click OK to create them 8 Click Yes when the message is displayed indicating that the network connection will be temporarily interrupted Note To maintain optimum adapter performance your system should have 64 MB of system memory for each of the eight VLANs creat...

Page 123: ...over and SLB Auto Fallback Disable Team LiveLink is a feature of BASP that is available for the Smart Load Balancing SLB and SLB Auto Fallback Disable type of teaming The purpose of LiveLink is to detect link loss beyond the switch and to route traffic only through team members that have a live link Read the following notes before you attempt to configure LiveLink NOTES o Before you begin configur...

Page 124: ...ver is triggered To specify different values click the desired probe interval in the Probe interval seconds list and click the desired maximum number of probe retries in the Probe maximum retries list 6 Set the Probe VLAN ID to correspond with the VLAN where the probe target s resides This will apply the appropriate VLAN tag to the link packet based on the shared configuration of the attached swit...

Page 125: ... is located 3 Click Apply 4 Click Yes when the message is displayed indicating that the network connection will be temporarily interrupted 5 If a configuration is already loaded a message is displayed that asks if you want to save your current configuration Click Yes to save the current configuration Otherwise the configuration data that is currently loaded is lost Note The team may take a very lo...

Page 126: ... of packets transmitted Tx Packet Discarded This is the number of packets discarded Tx Packet Queued This is the number of packets queued Rx Packet This is the number of packets received Rx Packet Discarded This is the number of packets discarded Probes Retried This is the number of consecutively missed responses from a probe target before a failover is triggered ...

Page 127: ...n of the adapter software and specify which adapter to test and which tests to perform The MS DOS Command Prompt mode is useful for viewing and changing the settings for available properties updating and loading device firmware viewing the version of and printing the error log if any to a file The Broadcom CLI mode is useful for enabling disabling available properties and enabling disabling select...

Page 128: ...ter on which to update the firmware or to view or change the settings for available properties b57udiag cmd Changes to the Broadcom CLI mode b57udiag mba value Enables disables Multi Boot Agent MBA protocol 1 Enable 0 Disable b57udiag mbap value Selects the specific MBA protocol 0 Preboot Execution Environment PXE 1 Remote Program Load RPL 2 Bootstrap Protocol BOOTP b57udiag mbas value Selects the...

Page 129: ... error log to a file b57udiag pipmi file Loads the Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI from a file b57udiag pipmi pt5721c6 10 b57udiag pipmi pt5704c2 36 b57udiag pipmi pt5704s2 36 Use the file that is appropriate for the type of hardware interface copper or fiber For example the pt5704c2 36 file should be used for copper and the pt5704s2 36 file should be used for fiber b57udiag ipmi va...

Page 130: ...s 3 100 Mbps speed half duplex operation setpxe s 4 100 Mbps speed full duplex operation setasf Enables disables Alert Standard Format ASF Do not use Alert Standard Format ASF is not for system platforms setmba Enables disables Multi Boot Agent MBA and selects the MBA protocol setmba d Disable MBA setmba e 0 Enable Preboot Execution Environment PXE MBA default setmba e 1 Enable Remote Program Load...

Page 131: ...ding the test designation or group designation in the command string as shown in the examples below nictest abcd Run all tests nictest b Run all tests in group B nictest a3b1 Run tests A3 and B1 only nictest a124b2 Run tests A1 A2 A4 and B2 exit Changes from the Broadcom CLI mode to the MS DOS command prompt mode device Selects the device adapter device n Device number in hexadecimal notation defa...

Page 132: ...t tests the onboard scratchpad SRAM The following tests are performed Address Test This test writes each address with a unique increment of data and reads back data to ensure data is correct After filling the entire address with the unique data the program reads back the data again to ensure that the data is still correct Walking bit For each address data one is written and read back for testing T...

Page 133: ...e test pattern It then performs a 0x1000 sized transmit DMA from the host buffer to the adapter MBUF memory The test verifies the data integrity in the adapter MBUF memory against the host memory and repeats the DMA for the entire MBUF buffer Then the test performs a receive DMA from the adapter to the host The 0x1000 byte test buffer is cleared to 0 before each receive DMA After the test verifies...

Page 134: ...nd verifies the CPU execution C3 DMA This test tests both high priority direct memory access DMA and low priority DMA The test moves data from the host memory to the adapter SRAM and verifies the data The test then moves data back to the host memory to again verify the data C4 MII The medium independent interface MII test function is identical to that of the Control Register Test A2 Each register ...

Page 135: ...ing bits This test verifies the reset value of the registers Event Mapping Test This test sets the SMB_ATTN bit By changing ASF_ATTN_ LOC bits the test verifies the mapping bits in TX_CPU or RX_CPU event bits Counter Test Clears WG_TO HB_TO PA_TO PL_TO RT_TO bits by setting the bits and ensures that the bits clear Clears the timestamp counter Writes a 1 to each of the PL PA HB WG RT counters Sets ...

Page 136: ...nabled D5 MII Miscellaneous This test tests the autopolling and PHY interrupt capabilities These are functions of the PHY D6 MSI This test tests the message signal interrupt MSI capability of the adapter Refer to PCI Specification version 2 3 for the MSI definition 6 5 Diagnostic Test Messages 0 PASS 1 Got 0x 08X 0x 08X Expected 0x 08X 2 Cannot perform task while chip is running 3 Invalid NIC devi...

Page 137: ...ed 27 Invalid Test Address Range nValid NIC address is 0x 08X 0x 08X and exclude 0x 08X 0x 08X 28 DMA Got 0x 08X 0x 08X Expected 0x 08X 29 Unsupported PhyId 04X 04X 30 Too many registers specified in the file max is d 31 Cannot write to VPD memory 32 VPD data error got 08X 0x04X expected 08X 33 No good link Check Loopback plug 34 Cannot TX Packet 35 Requested to TX d Only d is transmitted 36 Expec...

Page 138: ...ro after reset 55 Cannot start poll_ASF Timer 56 poll_ASF bit did not get reset after acknowledged 57 Timestamp Counter is not counting 58 s Timer is not working 59 Cannot clear bit s in cx CPU event register 60 Invalid EEPROM_FILENAME file size expected d but only can read d bytes 61 Invalid magic value in s expected 08x but found 08x 62 Invalid manufacture revision expected c but found c 63 Inva...

Page 139: ...its set 04x 74 CPU does not initialize MAC address register correctly 75 Invalid firmware file format 76 Resetting TX CPU Failed 77 Resetting RX CPU Failed 78 Invalid MAC address 79 Mac address registers are not initialized correctly 80 EEPROM Bootstrap checksum error Chapter 7 Troubleshooting NOTE For additional information go to Broadcom Ethernet NIC Frequently Asked Questions at http www broadc...

Page 140: ...ab in BACS this may indicate a hardware issue with the NIC or LOM that is installed in the system Control Registers EEPROM Internal Memory On Chip CPU Test LED Below are troubleshooting steps that may help correct the failure 1 Remove the failing device and reseat it in the slot ensuring the card is firmly seated in the slot from front to back 2 Rerun the test 3 If the card still fails replace it ...

Page 141: ... and connections Verify that the cable connections at the network adapter and the switch are attached properly Check the adapter installation by reviewing Installing the Hardware Verify that the adapter is properly seated in the slot Check for specific hardware problems such as obvious damage to board components or the PCI edge connector Check the configuration settings and change them if they are...

Page 142: ...To verify that the driver is loaded properly type LOAD B57 LAN FRAME_ETHERNET_II NAME B57_1_EII This command automatically verifies if the link is active If the link is active the command returns Link is up From the command line type config then press ENTER The following status information is displayed D Link NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Version Hardware Setting Node Address Frame Type Board...

Page 143: ...mine if the network connection is working NOTE Network connectivity can also be tested using the Testing the Network feature in Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 2 1 Click Start and then click Run 2 Type cmd in the Open box and then click OK 3 Type ipconfig all to view the network connection to be tested 4 Type ping IP address and then press ENTER The ping statistics that are displayed indicate whet...

Page 144: ...tion Server File b57w2k sys caused an unexpected error 21 at line 3752 in d xpsp1 base boot setup setup c Solution A modification to the b57win32 inf file can be made to allow for the installation to complete successfully This will be in conjunction with instructions from the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 315279 that describe How to Add Third Party OEM Network Adapters to RIS Installations Requ...

Page 145: ...ers Nic 5 Stop and then restart the Remote Installation service on the RIS server by typing the following from a command prompt net stop binlsvc net start binlsvc 7 6 2 RIPREP Utility Problem Problem The following message is received when attempting to deploy a RIPREP image through Remote Installation Services RIS The operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary drivers for y...

Page 146: ...erence for the following instructions http support microsoft com default aspx scid kb EN US 254078 http support microsoft com default aspx scid kb EN US 246184 1 Create the following path and place all Broadcom driver files in RIPREP Image oem 1 Drivers 2 Edit the riprep sif file located in RIPREP Image i386 Template to include the following information under the Unattend section OemPreinstall yes...

Page 147: ...st 4 12 enable 7 6 5 Broadcom Advanced Server Program BASP Problem The 802 3ad team member links disconnect and reconnect continuously applies to all operating systems Solution This is a third party issue It is seen only when configuring an 802 3ad team with more than 2 members on the system and connecting to an HP2524 switch with LACP enabled as passive or active The HP switch shows an LACP chann...

Page 148: ... systems if it is added after the system has booted Solution The system BIOS in some systems does not set the cache line size and the latency timer if the adapter is added after the system has booted Reboot the system after the adapter has been added Problem Large Send Offload LSO and Checksum Offload are not working on my team Solution If one of the adapters on a team does not support LSO LSO doe...

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