TOE and iSCSI can only be configured on certain adapters and require a license key. License keys are installed on the motherboard for use with LOMs and

are preprogrammed in add-in NICs. TOE is a technology best suited for long-term TCP connections. TOE used in conjunction with applications that

primarily deal with short-term connections may see suboptimal performance when compared to not using TOE. A short-term connection is a TCP

connection that is established for only a few seconds at most, often less than one second. The overhead of establishing and tearing down the TCP

connection with short-term connections may diminish the benefit that TOE provides. An example of an application that uses short-term connections is a

web server that is not behind a load balancer. TCP connections for HTTP sessions are very short-lived and last only long enough to serve up a web page,

after which the TCP connection is terminated. On the other hand, the same web server behind a load balancer benefits greatly from TOE since the TCP

connections are long-lived between the web server and the load balancer. In contrast, a backup application is very likely to benefit from TOE since backup

applications establish long-term connections between the server and the client.

To view resource reservations

1. Click the name of the Broadcom NetXtreme II system device in the Device Management pane.

2. Click the Configurations tab. If the Configurations tab is not visible, then from the View menu, select Navigate, then Device Management, and

then Configurations.

3. From the Resource Reservations section, select the property you want to set. If the Resource Reservations section is not available, then from

the Context View tab on the right side of the window, select Configurations and then select Resource Reservations.

4. Click Apply to confirm the changes to all properties. Click Reset to return the properties to their original values.

The Configurations tab for 1 Gbps network adapters is shown below.

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