Chapter 5. Software/Driver Configuration and Fine-tuning
5. Software/Driver Configuration and Fine-tuning
5.1.
Important Configurable Parameters
5.1.1. FEC
Chelsio T6 Unified Wire adapters support changing Forward Error Correction (FEC). The
current FEC settings can be viewed using:
host:root# sudo cxgbtool <cxgbX> fec
Below is a sample output on T6 25G port:
To set FEC:
host:root# sudo cxgbtool <cxgbX> fec <value>
Here value can be:
rs
: Reed-Solomon FEC
baser: Base-R/Reed-Solomon FEC
auto : Use standard FEC settings as specified by IEEE 802.3 interpretations of Cable
Transceiver Module parameters.
off
: Turn off FEC.
Example
Changing FEC from Reed-Solomon to Base-R/Reed-Solomon:
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