
is enabled only on some of the ports in your system. There are also several BIOS, platform, and application
settings that will affect your potential energy savings. A white paper containing information on how to best
configure your platform is available on the Intel website.
Flow Control
Enables adapters to more effectively regulate traffic. Adapters generate flow control frames when their
receive queues reach a pre-defined limit. Generating flow control frames signals the transmitter to slow
transmission. Adapters respond to flow control frames by pausing packet transmission for the time specified
in the flow control frame.
By enabling adapters to adjust packet transmission, flow control helps prevent dropped packets.
NOTES:
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For adapters to benefit from this feature, link partners must support flow control frames.
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When an adapter is running in NPar mode, Flow Control is limited to the root partition of
each port.
Default
RX & TX Enabled
Range
l
Disabled
l
RX Enabled
l
TX Enabled
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RX & TX Enabled
Gigabit Master Slave Mode
Determines whether the adapter or link partner is designated as the master. The other device is designated as
the slave. By default, the IEEE 802.3ab specification defines how conflicts are handled. Multi-port devices
such as switches have higher priority over single port devices and are assigned as the master. If both devices
are multi-port devices, the one with higher seed bits becomes the master. This default setting is called
"Hardware Default."
NOTE:
In most scenarios, it is recommended to keep the default value of this feature.
Setting this to either "Force Master Mode" or "Force Slave Mode" overrides the hardware default.
Default
Auto Detect
Range
l
Force Master Mode
l
Force Slave Mode
l
Auto Detect
NOTE:
Some multi-port devices may be forced to Master Mode. If the adapter is connected to such
a device and is configured to "Force Master Mode," link is not established.
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