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AOC-SG-i4

User’s Guide

Revison 1.0a

Summary of Contents for AOC-SG-i4

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Page 2: ...lution of any such disputes Super Micro s total liability for all claims will not exceed the price paid for the hardware product FCC Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with t...

Page 3: ...Installing Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager 3 2 Tips for PROSet Users 3 2 Removing Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager 3 2 Receive Side Scaling 3 2 RSS Configuration 3 3 Teaming 3 3 3 4 In...

Page 4: ...4 1 Overview 4 1 4 2 Identifying Your Adapter 4 1 4 3 Building and Installation 4 2 4 4 Command Line Parameters 4 3 Notes on InterruptThrottleRate 4 6 Speed and Duplex Configuration 4 7 4 5 Additiona...

Page 5: ...wer CPU utilization Virtualization provides the platform with port density required for virtualized environments Next generation VMDg with loopback functionality Direct cache access DCA Support Pre bo...

Page 6: ...Super Micro Computer B V Het Sterrenbeeld 28 5215 ML s Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Tel 31 0 73 6400390 Fax 31 0 73 6416525 Email sales supermicro nl General Information support supermicro nl Techni...

Page 7: ...is complete For faster service RMA authorizations may be requested online at http www supermicro com support rma Whenever possible repack the add on card in the original Supermicro box using the origi...

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Page 9: ...y do not touch its components peripheral chips memory modules or gold contacts When handling chips or modules avoid touching their pins Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags whe...

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Page 11: ...onents and their description Figure 2 1 AOC SG i4 Add On Card Front Connectors and Jumpers Table 2 1 Front Connectors and Pin Definitions Number Name Description 1 LAN Connector Ports 4 Housing with f...

Page 12: ...tions When properly configured this add on card allows Network Administrators to use STBY enabled and STBY disabled settings In addition to configurations required by your motherboard and software you...

Page 13: ...ard Components Table 2 3 lists the add on card s front jumpers and their pin definitions Table 2 3 Front Jumpers and Pin Definitions Jumper Jumper Settings Description 3 3V STBY On Enabled 3 3V STBY e...

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Page 15: ...card s firmware 3 2 Installing the Drivers in Microsoft Windows These instructions apply to all versions of Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP including Windows XP x64 and Windows XP 64 bit Edition Win...

Page 16: ...uters running Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 including 64 bit and x64 versions Installing Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager Intel PROSet for Windows Devi...

Page 17: ...or the team If an adapter that does not support RSS is added to a team RSS will be disabled for the team If a non Intel adapter is added to a team RSS will be disabled for the team Non Intel adapters...

Page 18: ...properly you must reboot after driver installation Table 3 1 SetupBD exe Switches Switch Description s Silent install with no boot r Force reboot must be used with the s switch nr No reboot must be us...

Page 19: ...es while Table 3 4 describes its public properties NOTE Intel PROSet can be installed with DxSetup exe or msiexec exe Intel recommends using DxSetup exe DxSetup exe detects the system s language searc...

Page 20: ...tions Please note though that Not all command line options Microsoft provides with msiexec exe have been tested or are necessarily supported for Intel PROSet installation ANS1 Property settings are 0...

Page 21: ...3 7 Chapter 3 Installing the Drivers Msiexec also sets an error level on return that corresponds to system error codes For further details see http msdn microsoft com library on the Microsoft web site...

Page 22: ...ne Syntax Silent Install upgrade Command Line Syntax The following launches a typical installation of PROSETDX msi Full path to msiexec exe i Full path to PROSETDX msi qn liew Full path to install log...

Page 23: ...ll characters are uppercase with no white space between characters For example msiexec exe i PROSETDX msi qn ANS 1 Any white space in ANS 1 makes the setting invalid ans 1 is not a valid setting Comma...

Page 24: ...e Uninstall Example First get the path of PROSETDX msi in the local system or any other image path when you installed Intel PROSet then use msiexec exe to uninstall Intel PROSet For example assume Sys...

Page 25: ...information on Intel I OAT at http www intel com technology ioacceleration index htm The following features are now available in supported kernels Native VLANs Channel Bonding teaming SNMP Channel Bon...

Page 26: ...ules KERNEL VERSION kernel drivers net e1000 e1000 k o The install location listed above is the default location This may differ for various Linux distributions For more information go to ldistrib htm...

Page 27: ...dprobe e1000 option VAL1 VAL2 For example with two PRO 1000 PCI adapters entering modprobe e1000 TxDescriptors 80 128 loads the e1000 driver with 80 TX descriptors for the first adapter and 128 TX des...

Page 28: ...o Ethernet PAUSE frames Interrupt ThrottleRate not supported on Intel R 82542 82543 or 82544 based adapters Valid Range 0 1 3 100 100000 0 off 1 dynamic 3 dynamic conservative 3 Since 7 3 x the driver...

Page 29: ...may be set too high causing the driver to run out of available receive descriptors WARNING When setting RxIntDelay to a value other than 0 adapters may hang stop transmitting under certain network con...

Page 30: ...tion of transmit interrupts in units of 1 024 microseconds Transmit interrupt reduction can improve CPU efficiency if properly tuned for specific network traffic If the system is reporting dropped tra...

Page 31: ...speed and duplex combinations and it links at the highest common speed and duplex mode IF the link partner is set to auto negotiate If Speed 1000 limited auto negotiation is enabled and only 1000 Mbps...

Page 32: ...0 AutoNeg 0x02 Restricts autonegotiation to 10 Full modprobe e1000 AutoNeg 0x03 Restricts autonegotiation to 10 Half or 10 Full modprobe e1000 AutoNeg 0x04 Restricts autonegotiation to 100 Half modpro...

Page 33: ...ters eth0 and eth1 and set the speed and duplex to 10full and 100half add the following to modules conf or etc modprobe conf alias eth0 e1000 alias eth1 e1000 options e1000 Speed 10 100 Duplex 2 1 Vie...

Page 34: ...Intel PRO 1000 EB Network Connection with I O Acceleration Intel PRO 1000 EB Backplane Connection with I O Acceleration Intel PRO 1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter Adapters based on the Intel 82542 an...

Page 35: ...river must be loaded prior to shutting down or suspending the system NAPI NAPI Rx polling mode is supported in the e1000 driver NAPI is enabled or disabled based on the configuration of the kernel To...

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Page 37: ...ected to result in significant injury or loss of life or catastrophic property damage Accordingly Supermicro disclaims any and all liability and should buyer use or sell such products for use in such...

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