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Solarflare Server Adapter
User Guide
9.3 Mac 0S X Platform Feature Set
The following table lists the features supported by Solarflare adapters on Mac OS X distributions.
9.4 Thunderbolt
The Solarflare adapter driver provides basic support for Thunderbolt. When a network adapter is
connected to a Thunderbolt-capable system e.g. via a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe chassis, the interfaces
can be configured in the usual way.
Due to limitations in the Thunderbolt connection performance may be worse compared to using the
Solarflare adapter in a PCIe slot.
Full support for Thunderbolt, including plugging and unplugging the Thunderbolt cable is planned
for a future release.
9.5 Driver Install
Uninstall Previous Driver
An installed Solarflare network adapter driver
MUST BE UNINSTALLED
before upgrading to a new
driver release.
1
Open System Preferences > Network.
2
Disable the service for all ports of the driver:
- choose an active driver service in the list
Table 88: Mac OS X Feature Set
Large Receive Offload
TCP receive frame coalescing to reduce CPU utilization and
improve TCP throughput
TCP Segmentation Offload
TCP transmit segmentation to reduce CPU utilization and
improve TCP throughput
RMON
Statistics counters
Checksum offloads
IPv4, TCP and UDP
MSI Interrupts
MTU
Standard 1500 byte and jumbo 9000 byte MTU