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AOC-S25GC-i4S add-on card. About this Add-On Card The Supermicro AOC-S25GC-i4S features Intel’s state of the art Columbiaville E810-CAM1 Ethernet solution, which delivers a high performance leading-edge 25Gb per second transfer rate in a PCI-E Gen 4 architecture with backward compat- ibility to PCI-E Gen 3.
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Product safety info: http://www.supermicro.com/about/policies/safety_informa- tion.cfm • If you have any questions, please contact our support team at: support@ supermicro.com This manual may be periodically updated without notice. Please check the Supermicro website for possible updates to the manual revision level.i...
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Introduction Overview Congratulations on purchasing your add-on card from an acknowledged leader in the industry. Supermicro products are designed with the utmost attention to detail to provide you with the highest standards in quality and performance. Key Features The key features of this add-on card include the following: •...
Super AOC-S25GC-i4S Add-On Card User's Guide Major Components The following major components are installed on the AOC-S25GC-i4S: AOC-S25GC-i4S Major Components Component Name Definition Intel E810-CAM1 Ethernet 25GbE Controller ® JNC-SI1 NC-SI header 1-2: Standby Mode Disable (default) 2-3: Standby Mode Enable...
SFP2/SFP3/SFP4) are located on the add-on card. These QSFP28 ports provide Ethernet 25GbE/10GbE network connections. See the layout below for the loca- tions. 1. QSFP28 LAN1 2. QSFP28 LAN2 3. QSFP28 LAN3 4. QSFP28 LAN4 JNCSI1 E810 CAM1 AOC-S25GC-i4S DESIGNED IN USA REV:1.00...
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Super AOC-S25GC-i4S Add-On Card User's Guide QSFP28 (LAN1/LAN2/LAN3/LAN4) Link/Activity LED Indicators Eight LAN Link/Activity LED indicators are located at D6, D7, D8, D9, D10, D11, D12, and D13 on the add-on card. D12 and D13 are used for the QSFP28 LAN1 connector while D10 and D11 are for the QSFP28 LAN2 connector.
For the network sideband interface to work properly, you will need to use a motherboard that supports NC-SI and also need to have a special cable. Please contact Supermicro at www.supermicro.com to purchase the cable for this header. See the layout below for the location of the JNC-SI1 header.
Super AOC-S25GC-i4S Add-On Card User's Guide Jumper Settings Connector Pins Explanation of Jumpers To modify the operation of the mother- Jumper board, jumpers can be used to choose between optional settings. Jumpers create shorts between two pins to change the Setting function of the connector.
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3.3V Standby Power Enable The 3.3V Standby Power Enable jumper is located at JP4 on the add-on card. Close Pins 1 and 2 to enable 3.3V Standby Power support. Please consult Supermicro before enabling it. The default setting is Disable.
Chapter 3 Installation Your system came with the AOC-S25GC-i4S add-on card to be used as a part of an integrated solution. We do not recommend that any part of your system components be removed and re-installed. However, if you do need to remove or re-install a system component, including this add-on card, please follow the instructions below to ensure proper system setup.
Super AOC-S25GC-i4S Add-On Card User's Guide Before Installation To install the add-on card properly, be sure to follow the instructions below. 1. Power down the system. 2. Remove the power cord from the wall socket. 3. Use industry standard anti-static equipment (such as gloves or wrist strap) and follow the instructions listed on Page 3-1 to avoid damage caused by ESD.
Installing Drivers (for Intel E810-CAM1) ® To install both drivers and firmware for the AOC-S25GC-i4S add-on card for either Linux and Windows, please follow the instructions below. Building Driver RPM Package Please follow the steps below to build a binary RPM package for this driver.
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Super AOC-S25GC-i4S Add-On Card User's Guide # rpm -Uvh <RPM> # dnf/yum localinstall <RPM> Note 1: To compile the driver on some kernel/arch combinations, you may need to install a package with the development version of libelf (e.g. libelf-dev, libelf-devel, elfutils-libelf-devel).
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Chapter 3: Installation The installation location listed above is the default location. This may differ for various Linux distributions. Note: To compile the driver with ADQ (Application Device Queues) flags set, use the following command where <nproc> is the number of logical cores: # make -j<nproc>...
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(Disclaimer Continued) The products sold by Supermicro are not intended for and will not be used in life support systems, medical equipment, nuclear facilities or systems, aircraft, aircraft devices, aircraft/emergency com- munication devices or other critical systems whose failure to perform be reasonably expected to result in significant injury or loss of life or catastrophic property damage.
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