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Solarflare Server Adapter User Guide
Solarflare Adapters on FreeBSD
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6.2 FreeBSD Platform Feature Set
Table 67 lists the features supported by Solarflare adapters on FreeBSD.
6.3 Installing Solarflare Drivers
The FreeBSD drivers for Solarflare are available in a source package.
• A package is available for FreeBSD 10.0 and 10.1:
‐ this package might perform correctly with other FreeBSD kernels, but has
not been tested with them
‐ for further details see the Release Notes .
NOTE: The Solarflare adapter should be physically installed in the host computer
before you attempt to install drivers. You must have root permissions to install the
adapter drivers.
Table 67: FreeBSD Feature Set
Jumbo frames Support for MTUs (Maximum Transmission Units) to
9000 bytes.
• See Configuring Jumbo Frames on page 295
Task offloads Support for TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), Large
Receive Offload (LRO), and TCP/UDP/IP checksum
offload for improved adapter performance and
reduced CPU processing requirements.
• See Configuring Task Offloading on page 295
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) Support for RSS multi ‐ core load distribution
technology.
• See Receive Side Scaling (RSS) on page 310
Virtual LANs (VLANs) Support for multiple VLANs per adapter.
• See Setting Up VLANs on page 295
PXE and booting Support for diskless booting to a target operating
system via PXE or UEFI boot.
• See Configuring the Boot ROM with sfboot on
page 297
• See Solarflare Boot Manager on page 374
Firmware updates Support for Boot ROM, PHY transceiver and adapter
firmware upgrades.
• See Upgrading Adapter Firmware with
sfupdate on page 303