Viewing Nic Partitioning Information - Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual

Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4: Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide
IPv6 Flow Info
The non-zero Flow Info is used to classify traffic flows. If Flow Info equals zero, then the packets are not a part of any flow.
Default Gateway
The default gateway value is the network address of the gateway that will be used by the management firmware for packets destined
for hosts external to the local network segment.
Link Status
The status of the network link.
Up. A link is established.
Down. A link is not established.
Duplex
The adapter is operating in the indicated duplex mode.
Speed
The link speed of the adapter, in megabits per second.
Offload Capabilities
The offload capabilities supported by the adapter. This information is only available for Broadcom NetXtreme II adapters.
TOE. TCP Offload Engine (TOE) allows simultaneous operation of up to 1024 fully offloaded TCP connections for 1-Gbps
network adapters and 1880 fully offloaded TCP connections for 10-Gbps network adapters to the hardware.
iSCSI. iSCSI offload for block-level transfer of data.
LSO. Large Send Offload (LSO) prevents an upper level protocol such as TCP from breaking a large data packet into a series
of smaller packets with headers appended to them.
CO. Checksum Offload (CO) allows the TCP/IP/UDP checksums for send and receive traffic to be calculated by the adapter
hardware rather than by the host CPU.
LiveLink IP Address
The network address of the LiveLink enabled adapter.
Local Connection
Identifies the module to which the blade server is attached.
Chassis SW. Chassis switch module
Chassis PHY. Pass-through module
None. No modules attached
BASP State
Information about the status of the BASP application. This information is displayed only when there is a team (see
Teaming).

Viewing NIC Partitioning Information

The NIC Partitioning section of the Information tab displays information about the partitions for the selected network adapter.
To view NIC Partitioning for any installed network adapter, click the name of the adapter listed in the Explorer View pane, then click
the Information tab.
NOTE: Some information may not be available for all Broadcom network adapters.
NIC partitioning divides a Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC into multiple virtual NICs by having multiple PCI physical
functions per port. Each PCI function is associated with a different virtual NIC. To the OS and the network, each physical function
appears as a separate NIC port. For more information on NIC partitioning, see
Adapter User Guide.
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