Networking Ports; Networking Ports Leds Interface - Nvidia BlueField-2 User Manual

• 2.5, 5.0, or 8.0, or 16.0 GT/s link rate x8/x16 lanes
• Auto-negotiates to x16, x8, x4, x2, or x1
• Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

Networking Ports

The network ports of the DPU are compliant with the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards listed in
cards' QSFP56/SFP56 connectors. By default, the port cages of this group of OPNs are set to operate in QSFP28/SFP28 mode (default card firmware
setting). BlueField-2 DPUs support copper/optic and SR4 modules only.

Networking Ports LEDs Interface

There is one bicolor (Yellow and Green) I/O LED per port to indicate speed and link status.
Link Indications
State
Beacon command for locating the adapter card
Error
Bi-Color LED (Yellow/Green)
1Hz blinking Yellow
4Hz blinking Yellow Indicates an error with the link. The error can be one of the
following:
Error Type Description
2 2
I C I C access to the networking
ports fails
Features and Benefits. Traffic is transmitted through the
LED Behavior
Blinks until error is fixed
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