Chelsio N210 Installation And User Manual

10gb ethernet adapter i386 and sparc platforms on solaris release 10

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N210/N110 - 10Gb Ethernet Adapter
Installation and User's Guide for
i386 and SPARC platforms on
Solaris Release 10.
Driver release 2.1.1, May 2005 (chxge-2.1.1-s10)
Chelsio Communications, Inc.
http://www.chelsio.com

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  • Page 1 N210/N110 - 10Gb Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide for i386 and SPARC platforms on Solaris Release 10. Driver release 2.1.1, May 2005 (chxge-2.1.1-s10) Chelsio Communications, Inc. http://www.chelsio.com...
  • Page 2 INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE AND ANY ASSOCIATED MATERIALS (COLLECTIVELY THE “SOFTWARE”) IS SUBJECT TO THE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS OF CHELSIO COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Chelsio N210/N110 Installation and User Guide for Solaris Release 10, April 2005.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Configuring the Network Host Files ..................... 3 Device Driver Parameters ......................5 Driver Configuration ........................5 Driver Parameter Details......................6 Setting Driver Parameters......................8 Device Driver Limitations ......................8 Customer Support ......................... 8 Chelsio N210/N110 Installation and User Guide for Solaris Release 10, April 2005.
  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction This document describes the Chelsio N210 and N110 10Gb Ethernet Adapter driver for Solaris Release 10. Hardware and Software Requirements The N210/N110 driver supports the following architectures. • All Sun SPARC architectures supporting PCI*/PCI-X (133, 100, or 66Mhz) adapters.
  • Page 5: Software Installation

    Software Installation The Chelsio N210/N110 10Gb Ethernet adapter driver software may be downloaded via our support website at http://www.chelsio.com. The driver may also be distributed on CD-ROM. In either case, the driver file will be named chxge-2.1.1-s10.tar.gz. Copy this file to a location on your system where you have read/write access and enough space to un-tar the package.
  • Page 6: Uninstalling The Sparc Driver

    1. Using the instance number found in the previous step 1, create a file in /etc named hostname.chxge0, adding an ipaddress to the file. You could alternately create the file using a hostname. # echo 192.168.0.1 > /etc/hostname.chxge0 Chelsio N210/N110 Installation and User Guide for Solaris Release 10, April 2005.
  • Page 7 2. Create an entry in /etc/hosts to map your hostname to ipaddress. # Internet host table 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 chelsio_server 3. Create an entry in /etc/inet/netmasks and add the netmask. # network-number netmask 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 Chelsio N210/N110 Installation and User Guide for Solaris Release 10, April 2005.
  • Page 8: Device Driver Parameters

    Configuring the driver parameters is the same between SPARC and x86 machines running Solaris 10. The chxge driver controls the Chelsio N110 and N210 Ethernet adapters. The chxge driver has a PCI vendor ID of pci1425 and device ID’s of 0007 and 000a for the N110 and N210, respectively. Driver Configuration...
  • Page 9: Driver Parameter Details

    Other values will generate a warning and the number of split transactions will not be modified. Setting pci-split-transaction-cnt to 0 will result in using the system default burst size. Chelsio N210/N110 Installation and User Guide for Solaris Release 10, April 2005.
  • Page 10 Hardware checksum is enabled by default. Use the following parameter to disable this feature. enable-checksum-offload = 0; Chelsio N210/N110 Installation and User Guide for Solaris Release 10, April 2005.
  • Page 11: Setting Driver Parameters

    Chelsio Communications, Inc. 370 San Aleso Ave. Suite 100 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 http://www.chelsio.com Copyright 2005 Chelsio Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Chelsio N210/N110 Installation and User Guide for Solaris Release 10, April 2005.

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