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Solarflare Server Adapter User Guide
Solarflare Adapters on Windows
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4.25 Sfnet
• Sfnet: Command Usage on page 211
• Sfnet: Command Line Options on page 211
• Completion codes (%errorlevel%) on page 215
Sfnet is a Windows command line utility to configure the physical or virtual adapter
settings, such as checksum offloading, RSS, VMQ and Power Management.
NOTE: Changing these settings may significantly alter the performance of the
adapter. You should contact Solarflare technical support before changing any of
these settings.
Sfnet: Command Usage
1 Login with an administrator account.
2 Click Start > All Programs > Solarflare Network Adapter > Command Line
Interface for network adapters . If you installed the Solarflare system tray icon,
you can right ‐ click the icon and choose Command ‐ line tools instead.
3 In the Command Prompt window, enter your command using the following
syntax:
sfnet [/Adapter Identifier] [options]
where:
‐
Identifier
is the name or ID of the adapter that you want to manage.
Specifying the adapter is optional ‐ if it is not included the command is
applied to all Solarflare adapters in the machine.
‐
option
is the option to apply. See Sfnet: Command Line Options for a list
of available options.
To see all adapters installed on the computer and their current options and
parameter settings use the
sfnet /List
option.
If using sfnet in a configuration script, you can include the environment variable
%SFTOOLS%
to set the path to the Solarflare tools. For example:
SET PATH=%PATH%;%SFNET%
or refer to sfnet as:
%SFTOOLS%\sfnet
Sfnet: Command Line Options
Table 52 lists the command options for sfnet. Note that command line options are
case insensitive and may be abbreviated.
NOTE: Abbreviations in scripts should be avoided, since future updates to the
application may render your abbreviated scripts invalid.