HP NC373m HP ProLiant Essentials RDMA for HP Multifunction NICs User Guide - Page 9

Configuration In this section Enabling RDMA devices...9 Testing HP RDMA functionality using the Microsoft wsdping.exe utility 14 Disabling an HP RDMA device ...15 Enabling RDMA devices When enabling RDMA devices, keep the following guidelines (conditions) in mind: • Microsoft Windows Firewall must be disabled before HP RDMA functionality can be enabled. If RDMA is enabled when Microsoft Windows Firewall is enabled, RDMA connectivity fails. No error message appears. • When TOE is enabled, RDMA cannot be enabled. • If the Maximum Frame Size setting is more than 1514 bytes, RDMA cannot be enabled. • RDMA cannot be enabled on a Multifunction adapter that has one or more VLANs enabled. • When RDMA is enabled, non-HP filter drivers are not supported. If a non-HP filter driver is inserted in the NDIS stack shared with the RDMA stack, RDMA connections are no longer created and existing RDMA connections are terminated. No error message appears. To enable a Multifunction Server Adapter as an RDMA device, complete the following steps: Configuration 9