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Adapter properties and configurations on Netware, TCP Offload Engine TOE., Receive-Side Scaling RSS.

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• TCP Offload Engine (TOE). Enables the offloading of TCP connections to HP Multifunction Server Adapters. Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is required. o Default = Enabled o Range = Disabled; Enabled TOE will not work with the following features enabled: Windows Firewall; Internet Protocol security (IPsec); Internet Protocol Network Address Translation (IPNAT); third-party firewalls; and NDIS 5.1 intermediate drivers. Download article number KB92222 from the Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) website for more information. • Receive-Side Scaling (RSS). Enables dynamic load balancing of incoming traffic across CPUs. Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is required. o Default = Enabled o Range = Disabled; Enabled Adapter properties and configurations on Netware A network device driver must be installed before the Gigabit Ethernet adapter can be used with your Novell NetWare system. Before you can successfully install the adapter driver for Novell NetWare, the adapter card must be physically installed in the server and, typically, NetWare OS software must already be running on the server. Make sure that your server meets the hardware and operating system software requirements. For an adapter installation with an existing NetWare server, NetWare will automatically detect the new adapter and attempt to load the appropriate driver. To enable the Gigabit Ethernet adapter to function correctly, you need to install the latest support pack files. The latest support pack can be found at the Novell website (http://www.novell.com). Netware install program A commonly used method to install a driver on a NetWare server is through NWCONFIG. The following drivers are supported. Driver configuration parameters Parameter CheckSum = Frame = type node = name = text Options Default = ON Selections are: ON, OFF, Tx, Rx Valid types are: Ethernet_802.2, Ethernet_802.3, Ethernet_II, Ethernet_SNAP NNNNNNNNNNNN Description Enables or disables the transmit and receive checksum off-loading feature. Checksum is supported under NetWare 5.x only. If you want to enable the CheckSum parameter, you need to load it on the first instance. Defines the frame type being used by this load instance. Ethernet_802.2 and Ethernet_II are the default values. Specifies a node address in this field to override the default Media Access Controller (MAC) address (also known as the Locally Administered Address) Displays the name assigned to this adapter Configuration and diagnostics 16

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TCP Offload Engine (TOE).
Enables the offloading of TCP connections to HP Multifunction Server
Adapters. Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is required.
o
Default = Enabled
o
Range = Disabled; Enabled
TOE will not work with the following features enabled: Windows Firewall; Internet Protocol security
(IPsec); Internet Protocol Network Address Translation (IPNAT); third-party firewalls; and NDIS 5.1
intermediate drivers. Download article number KB92222 from the Microsoft
(
) website for more information.
•
Receive-Side Scaling (RSS).
Enables dynamic load balancing of incoming traffic across CPUs.
Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is required.
o
Default = Enabled
o
Range = Disabled; Enabled
Adapter properties and configurations on Netware
A network device driver must be installed before the Gigabit Ethernet adapter can be used with your
Novell NetWare system. Before you can successfully install the adapter driver for Novell NetWare, the
adapter card must be physically installed in the server and, typically, NetWare OS software must already
be running on the server. Make sure that your server meets the hardware and operating system software
requirements.
For an adapter installation with an existing NetWare server, NetWare will automatically detect the new
adapter and attempt to load the appropriate driver.
To enable the Gigabit Ethernet adapter to function correctly, you need to install the latest support pack
files. The latest support pack can be found at the Novell website (
).
Netware install program
A commonly used method to install a driver on a NetWare server is through NWCONFIG. The following
drivers are supported.
Driver configuration parameters
Parameter
Options
Description
CheckSum =
Default = ON
Selections are: ON, OFF, Tx,
Rx
Enables or disables the transmit and receive
checksum off-loading feature. Checksum is
supported under NetWare 5.x only. If you
want to enable the CheckSum parameter, you
need to load it on the first instance.
Frame = type
Valid types are:
Ethernet_802.2,
Ethernet_802.3, Ethernet_II,
Ethernet_SNAP
Defines the frame type being used by this load
instance. Ethernet_802.2 and Ethernet_II are
the default values.
node =
NNNNNNNNNNNN
Specifies a node address in this field to
override the default Media Access Controller
(MAC) address (also known as the Locally
Administered Address)
name = text
Displays the name assigned to this adapter