Software Packages And Installation; Supported Operating Systems; Installing The Linux Driver; Linux Ethtool Commands - Broadcom NetXtreme-C User Manual

NetXtreme-C/NetXtreme-E User Guide

6 Software Packages and Installation

Refer to the following sections for information on software packages and installation.

6.1 Supported Operating Systems

Table 10 provides a list of supported operating systems.
Table 10: Supported Operating System List
OS Flavor Distribution
Windows Windows 2012 R2 or above
Linux Redhat 6.9, Redhat 7.1 or above
SLES 11 SP 4, SLES 12 SP 2 or above
VMware ESXi 6.0 U3 or above

6.2 Installing the Linux Driver

Linux drivers can be downloaded from the Broadcom public website:
?pg=Ethernet+Connectivity,+Switching,+and+PHYs&pf=Ethernet+Network+Adapters+-+NetXtreme&pa=Driver.
See the package readme.txt files for specific instructions and optional parameters.

6.2.1 Linux Ethtool Commands

NOTE:
In Table 11, ethX should be replaced with the actual interface name.
Table 11: Linux Ethtool Commands
Command
ethtool -s ethX speed 25000 autoneg off
ethtool -i ethX
ethtool -k ethX
ethtool -K ethX tso off
ethtool -K ethX gro off lro off
ethtool -g ethX
ethtool -G ethX rx N
ethtool -S ethX
ethtool -l ethX
ethtool -L ethX rx 0 tx 0 combined M
ethtool -C ethX rx-frames N
ethtool -x ethX
ethtool -s ethX autoneg on speed 10000 duplex full
ethtool --show-eee ethX
ethtool --set-eee ethX eee off
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Description
Set the speed. If the link is up on one port, the driver does not allow
the other port to be set to an incompatible speed.
Output includes driver, firmware and package version.
Show offload features.
Turn off TSO.
Turn off GRO/LRO.
Show ring sizes.
Set Ring sizes.
Get statistics.
Show number of rings.
Set number of rings.
Set interrupt coalescing. Other parameters supported are: rx-usecs,
rx-frames, rx-usecs-irq, rx-frames-irq, tx-usecs, tx-frames, tx-usecs-
irq, tx-frames-irq.
Show RSS flow hash indirection table and RSS key.
Enable Autoneg (see "Auto-Negotiation Configuration" on page 24
for more details)
Show EEE state.
Disable EEE.
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