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HP Network Adapter Software and Configuration Guide Part Number 441877-00B March 2007 (Second Edition)

Overview 10 No support • Linux No support Upgrading the adapter with a persistent driver To upgrade the adapter with a persistent driver: 1. Manua

Adapter configurations 100 • Speed & Duplex. The Speed & Duplex property allows the user to set the connection speed to the network and mod

Adapter configurations 101 many receive descriptors are used, the driver unnecessarily consumes memory resources. This property is only available th

Adapter configurations 102 recommended selection is Auto and it is the default setting. To disable Flow Control, select Disable from the Value list

Adapter configurations 103 o Auto. (Default) Sets the speed for optimum network connection NOTE: This property is not supported on the NC150T an

Adapter configurations 104 recommended selection is Auto and it is the default setting. To disable Flow Control, select Disable from the Value list

Adapter configurations 105 • Offload Receive TCP Checksum. Offloads the task of computing the checksum for incoming TCP or UDP packets, thereby imp

Adapter configurations 106 Modifying NC31xx Fast Ethernet adapter properties Although the default values should be appropriate in most cases, you ma

Adapter configurations 107 • Link Speed & Duplex. Allows the user to set the connection speed to the network and mode. Full-Duplex Mode allows

Adapter configurations 108 • Adaptive Interframe Spacing. Compensates for excessive Ethernet packet collisions on the network. The default setting

Adapter configurations 109 • Speed/Duplex Setting. Changes the current speed and duplex settings. Be sure this setting is compatible with the link

Overview 11 3. Set Speed/Duplex on the adapter to Auto/Auto, 10/Half, 10/Full, 100/Half, 100/Full, or 1000/Full. 4. Click OK until prompted to resta

Adapter configurations 110 Properties for NC67xx and NC77xx Server Adapters • Speed/Duplex Setting. Changes the current speed and duplex settings.

Adapter configurations 111 1. Load the network drivers for the network adapters that will be part of the team. The frame types loaded should be the

Adapter configurations 112 NOTE: In SLB mode, IPX traffic is load-balanced on the send side but not on the receive side. Loading frame types Aft

Adapter configurations 113 BIND QASP1 Q57_2_EII If there are multiple VLANs (each with one or more frame types) loaded on the virtual adapter, it is

Adapter configurations 114 team support hardware checksums. Be sure to load the adapter drivers with hardware checksums enabled. Default is ON. Exam

Adapter configurations 115 Load QASP.LAN with the frame types and VLAN ID(s) specified. LOAD ODINEB.NLM LOAD QASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=QASP_1

Adapter configurations 116 LOAD QASP.LAN VSLOT=1 FRAME=Ethernet_II NAME=QASP_1_EII LOAD QASP.LAN VSLOT=1 FRAME=Ethernet_802.2 NAME=QASP_1_E82 LOA

Adapter configurations 117 LOAD QASP.LAN VSLOT=4 FRAME=Ethernet_II NAME=QASP_4_EII LOAD Q57.LAN SLOT=7 speed=100fd FRAME=Ethernet_II NAME=Q57_7_EI

Adapter configurations 118 LOAD Q57.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=Q57_1_EII SLOT=2 BIND QASP1 Q57_1_EII BIND QASP1 Q57_2_EII BIND IP QASP_1_EII ADDR=1

Adapter configurations 119 o This keyword is to enable the use of batching receives within a specific time period. o Min = 0, disabled o Max = 5

Overview 12 Examples: o 100 Mbps full-duplex: FORCEDUPLEX=2 SPEED=100 o 10 Mbps full-duplex: FORCEDUPLEX=2 SPEED=10 • Syntax: SPEED= n (n = 10 or

Adapter configurations 120 NOTE: If you modify any adapter parameters, you must reboot the system for the changes to take effect. If you make chan

Adapter configurations 121 o Syntax: FORCEDUPLEX=n Where n= 0–auto-negotiate 1–half-duplex 2–full-duplex NOTE: To set the adapter to half- or fu

Adapter configurations 122 FILES=100 buffers=25 LASTDRIVE=m fcbs=4,4 device=c:\6150\amsida.sys device=c:\6150\amsicd.sys /d:cpqcd001 • Example AUTO

Adapter configurations 123 4—Advertise both Rx and TX flow control being enable and negotiate with link partner. If link AutoNegotiate is not enable

Adapter configurations 124 Example: TxCoalescingTicksDuringInt=75; • RxMaxCoalescedFramesDuringInt. Configures the number of Rx Maximum Coalesced F

Adapter configurations 125 • To query current configuration of Flow Control of instance 3: ndd -set /dev/bcme Instance 3 ndd -get /dev/bcme FlowCo

Team properties 126 Team properties In this section Adapter teaming...

Team properties 127 (NFT) provides the safety of additional backup links between the server and hub/switch. Dynamic Dual Channel NFT is implemented

Team properties 128 SLB works only with SLB-enabled switches, such as the Catalyst 6000 series. The SLB software continuously analyzes loading on ea

Team properties 129 Select or change the Transmit Balancing Method for the team. If the team type is Network Fault Tolerance Only with Preference Or

Installation 13 Installation In this section Download latest drivers, firmware, and documentation...

Team properties 130 • If the new team includes at least one TOE-enabled adapter and at least one non-TOE capable adapter, the team is created with

Team properties 131 • Any HP Software and Documentation CD Version 5.0 or earlier shipped with an HP 10/100 or Gigabit adapter The HP Primer Utilit

Team properties 132 o HP System Partition Upgrade Utility Using HP Primer Utility from the graphical user interface To remove the Windows NT® compo

Team properties 133 Method 2: Manual Removal 1. Dissolve all teams and controller-pairs with their respective utilities. 2. Upgrade the OS to Win

Team properties 134 6. A message box appears with a warning that the protocol information for the primary adapter, such as the IP address must be co

Team properties 135 • Shared Access (Enable)—If selected, it allows Internet connection sharing. You can share Applications and Protocols. • Appli

Team properties 136 WakeUp Capabilities WOL Speed • Driver Tab o Name, Version number, Driver Details o Install o Uninstall o Update driver •

Team properties 137 • TLB load balances IP traffic under Windows NT® and IP and IPX traffic under NetWare. • Switch-assisted Load Balancing (SLB).

Team properties 138 3. Select two to eight of the listed adapters by single-clicking them. Individual stand-alone adapters will remain selected as y

Team properties 139 11. Click Close at the bottom of the Network Control Panel applet to finish configuration of network devices. 12. Binding analy

Installation 14 5. Click HP ProLiant Networking Software. 6. Click download and save the HP SoftPaq (sp#####.exe) file to a directory on your hard d

Team properties 140 o Syntax: LOAD CPQANS MODE=XXX o Example: LOAD CPQANS MODE=NFT NOTE: NFT is the default mode. Issuing a "LOAD CPQANS C

Team properties 141 • Every member of a CPQANS team must be connected to the same network segment. If you have multiple CPQANS teams, each team mus

Team properties 142 Error conditions If you receive the error message "Failed to create new team," check the following: • All adapters ha

Team properties 143 o Default = 3 o Minimum = 1 o Description: Changes the team's number of probes to send in case of a retry. This can als

Team properties 144 Note that ONLY an NFT mode Team can combine an HP Gigabit server adapter (server adapters that use N1000.LAN) and an HP Fast Eth

Team properties 145 This example also differs from the previous example in that the Team will be in the Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) mode. This ex

Team properties 146 you do not include "TEAM=1" CPQANS defaults to Team 1. Thus, the "TEAM" command line switch is optional for

Team properties 147 For CPQANS.LAN to work in VLAN mode, the adapter (or adapters) needs to be connected to a "tagged" port (a "trunk

Team properties 148 NOTE: VLAN is not supported on heterogeneous teaming. You can implement Teaming and VLAN at the same time. Because the scrip

Team properties 149 2. Load CPQANS twice for each frame type, once for each VLAN. Assign the VLANID number keyword for each instance. LOAD CPQANS FR

Installation 15 1. Run the appropriate Driver Component Package (listed as CPxxxxxx.exe) in a directory on your hard drive. The component is a self-e

VLAN properties 150 VLAN properties In this section VLAN information...

ProLiant Essentials 151 ProLiant Essentials In this section Networking pack installation ...

ProLiant Essentials 152 bottlenecks or broken network linkages, and steer traffic to the optimum route based on network conditions. Advanced network

ProLiant Essentials 153 To enable Virus Throttle for Linux, an Intelligent Networking Pack–Linux Edition license must be installed on the system. F

Diagnostics 154 Diagnostics In this section PCI shared interrupts...

Diagnostics 155 NOTE: The DOS diagnostic utility, DIAGS.EXE, will always use auto-negotiation to determine the link type listed under the "Vi

Diagnostics 156 • Device Registers—Test patterns are written, read, and verified through the adapter's device registers to check proper functio

Diagnostics 157 Prerequisites The diagnostic utility runs under MS-DOS® v6.22 or later. It will not run from a DOS window in IBM OS/2® or any Microso

Diagnostics 158 Using indirect addressing method, this test writes increment data into the MAC Hash Register table and reads back for verification. T

Diagnostics 159 "16 00's 16 FF's" Fill the entire host DMA buffer with 16 bytes of 00's and then 16 bytes of FF's. &qu

Installation 16 To update the network driver, follow these instructions: Locate the driver on the CD, diskette, or directory on your hard drive where

Diagnostics 160 This is an internal loopback data transmit/receive test. It initializes MAC into internal loopback mode, and transmits 100 packets. T

Diagnostics 161 o Example: q57diag.exe -p • -npol o Selects negative link polarity in TBI test o Example: q57diag.exe -npol • -q Selects quick di

Diagnostics 162 o Default Settings Enabled Tests: A1. Indirect Register Test A2. Control Register Test A3. Interrupt Test A4. Built In Self Test A5.

Diagnostics 163 o Example: q57diag.exe -bus 5 Program tests UUTs on bus 5 • -dpmi o Specifies the use of DPMI memory allocation o Uses DPMI memo

Diagnostics 164 • -firmall <file> Updates device eeprom based on <file>; Only MAC address will be preserved • -pxe Programs PXE firmwar

Diagnostics 165 o dflt = 1 • -rstpl <x> <y> o <x> = post GRC rst poll interval, dly in ms; dflt = 10 o <y> = post GRC rst

Diagnostics 166 5. Read only bit %s got changed after writing 1's at offset 0x%X 6. Read/Write bit %s did not get cleared after writing zero at

Diagnostics 167 41. No external memory detected 42. DMA buffer %04X is large, size must be less than %04X 43. File size %d is too big, max is %d 44

Diagnostics 168 The diagnostic software lets you test adapters to see if there are any problems with the adapter hardware, cabling, or network connec

Diagnostics 169 • B3. RXP scratchpad • B4. COM scratchpad • B5. CP scratchpad • B6. MCP scratchpad • B7. TAS header buffer • B8. TAS payload

Installation 17 5. Copy driver installation files: Xcopy the HP Configuration and Drivers Disk to the proper location under Adapter Device Driver fol

Diagnostics 170 This test issues multiple chip resets and constant driver load/unload to check for boot ROM appropriately loads the bootcode. This te

Diagnostics 171 1. If you have not already done so, download and extract the HP SoftPaq file and then run MAKEDISK.BAT to create a driver disk. 2.

Technical support 172 Technical support In this section Before you contact HP...

Technical support 173 The following sites offer troubleshooting information, compatibility notes, and software upgrades (including Softpaqs and driv

Acronyms and abbreviations 174 Acronyms and abbreviations BIOS Basic Input/Output System DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol IPL initial prog

Acronyms and abbreviations 175 UNDI Universal Network Driver Interface VLAN virtual local-area network

Index 176 A Adapter teaming 129, 139 Advanced Server Program for NetWare 110 B Boot Agent 69 D diagnostics 155, 157 Diver and software inform

Installation 18 ;transport=ms$netbeui,MS$NETBEUI ;lana0=ms$ne2clone,1,ms$netbeui ;lana1=ms$ne2clone,1,ms$ndishlp transport=tcpip,TCPIP lana0=ms$ne2cl

Installation 19 [network drivers] netcard=N100.DOS ;transport=ndishlp.sys,*netbeui transport=tcpdrv.dos,nemm.dos devdir=A:\NET LoadRMDrivers=yes [P

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Installation 20 InstallServices = ServicesSection JoinWorkgroup = workgroup [ProtocolsSection] TC = TCParamSection [TCParamSection] DHCP = yes [CP

Installation 21 7. Click the SoftPaq file to extract the files and then open the cmponent.htm file. In addition, the Linux (open source) drivers can

Installation 22 RxPause TxPause RxPause/TxPause NOTE: 1000 Mbps (1 Gbps) full-duplex fixed speed is only valid for fiber connections. For copper,

Installation 23 100 Mbps full-duplex 1000 Mbps full-duplex o Flow Control Disabled (default) Auto Negotiation (Symmetric Pause advertised) Receive

Installation 24 In Solaris 7.0 (Intel platform), the operating system only allocates 36 pages of 4K physically contiguous memory. The driver needs ap

Installation 25 dd if=bcmedu.img of=/dev/rdiskette bs=36k Installing Solaris DU dskettes You can use Solaris DU diskettes in the following ways: •

Installation 26 13. Select F2_Continue. The message "Loading driver..." is displayed, followed by messages about the drivers that are requ

Installation 27 3. If Volume Management is running, temporarily stop it by typing: # /etc/init.d/volmgt stop 4. Insert the DU diskette into the dis

Installation 28 NetWare A network device driver must be installed before the Gigabit Ethernet adapter can be used with your Novell NetWare system. Be

Installation 29 NOTE: Your NetWare server software must be the latest version of the support pack before installing the HP driver. The latest suppo

Contents 3 Contents Overview...

Installation 30 Parameter Options Description PDriver = Default = OFF Selections are: OFF, ON Allows driver to operate in persistent driver mode. P

Installation 31 Parameter Options Description TXPacketsPer Default = 64 Min = 0, disabled Max = 100 Enables the use of batching transmits to a spe

Installation 32 # WARNING!! file server name NOVELLSERVER51 # WARNING!! # If you change the name of this server, you must update # all the licenses

Installation 33 o Full-duplex. The adapter sends and receives packets at the same time. This improves the performance of your adapter. Set duplex mod

Installation 34 • NODE. This keyword specifies a locally administered address (LAA) unique to each adapter. Use this option to provide your own uniq

Installation 35 The following describes the adapter Status Counters and Software Counters and their acceptable ranges. N100 custom counters • Link S

Installation 36 • Tx Lost Carrier Sense This counter contains the number of frames that were transmitted by the device despite the fact that it dete

Installation 37 that software uses, or increasing the performance of the host machine's processing power (which would allow for faster processin

Installation 38 amount of under-runs. The higher this number, the more time the adapter is waiting before starting to transmit data onto the wire. Po

Installation 39 • Link Status Change Count This counter indicates the number of times the link status has been changed. • Rx CRC Error Count This c

Contents 4 Multifunction gigabit server adapter teaming ...

Installation 40 This counter contains the number of frames that were either not transmitted or re-transmitted due to a Tx DMA under-run. If the devic

Installation 41 This counter indicates the number of unsupported flow control frames that are received. This counter increments when a flow control p

Installation 42 • Good Octets Received Count HI This counter, in conjunction with the Good Octets Received Count LO, makes up a 64-bit counter that

Installation 43 This counter, in conjunction with the Total Octets Transmitted HI, makes up a 64-bit counter that indicates the total number of octet

Installation 44 This counter indicates the number of receive packets with CRC errors. Packets less than 64 bytes are not counted in this counter. •

Installation 45 o Description: Sets a certain mode. Use after binding to base drivers with Team=nnn. • DELAY o Syntax: delay=nnn o Description: De

Installation 46 • PROBE_RETRY_COUNT o Syntax: probe_retry_count=nnn o Description: Changes probes retry count • PROBE_SEND_INTERVAL o Syntax: pr

Installation 47 o Description: Identifies the team. nnnn=DecimalNumber. • TX_ECBS_TO_USE o Syntax: tx_ecbs_to_use=nnn o Description: Sets number o

Firmware upgrade utility 48 Firmware upgrade utility In this section Windows utility...

Firmware upgrade utility 49 Standup adapters: • HP NC150T PCI 4-port Gigabit Combo Switch Adapter • HP NC320T PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter •

Overview 5 Overview In this section Supported adapters and operating systems ...

Firmware upgrade utility 50 IMPORTANT: Before updating NC6770 or NC7770 server adapters, move jumper J1 to the Enable position. After updating eac

Firmware upgrade utility 51 Command line argument Description /S[ILENT] Supresses console messages. If this argument is omitted from the command

Firmware upgrade utility 52 The upgrade installation activity (including errors) is written by the Smart Component to a common installation log file

Firmware upgrade utility 53 Command Line Input Result nicfwupg_mf.exe -c Displays the current firmware version of all HP NC-Series Broadcom ad

Firmware upgrade utility 54 c-Class BladeSystem utility The HP Gigabit Server Adapter Firmware Upgrade Utility for c-Class BladeSystem uses two sepa

Firmware upgrade utility 55 • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 x86 Linux 64 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T • Red Hat Enterp

Firmware upgrade utility 56 • HP NC7760 PCI-X Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC7761 PCI Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC7780 Gigabit Server Adapter •

Firmware upgrade utility 57 names for the packages are hpnicfwupg-<version>.i386.rpm for Linux 32 and hpnicfwupg-<version>.x86_64.rpm fo

Firmware upgrade utility 58 Command line argument Description –p Previous. Interactively restores previous firmware images that were automatically b

Firmware upgrade utility 59 Error level Meaning 2 Hpnicfwupg did not attempt firmware upgrade because the installed firmware was up-to-date, the ta

Overview 6 • HP NC6136 Gigabit Server Adapter (PCI 1000 SX) • HP NC6170 Dual Port PCI-X Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC6770 PCI-X Gigabit Server Ad

Firmware upgrade utility 60 • HP NC7761 PCI Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC7780 Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC7781 PCI-X Gigabit Server Adapter •

Firmware upgrade utility 61 7782327B BIN NICFWUPG BAT PT5704C2 36 PXE_V322 BIN Q57UDIAG EXE SP29044 TXT PXE_V778 BIN PXE_V839 BIN 320TV355 BIN 11.

Adapter configurations 62 Adapter configurations In this section HP NC-Series Broadcom adapters...

Adapter configurations 63 • FixCheckSumOff—This string parameter turns off the driver work-around for the TCP/IP stack to recognize the 1's co

Adapter configurations 64 • DRIVERNAME o Possible value: BXND20X$ o This field is case sensitive • LINESPEED o Possible values: 10, 100, or 100

Adapter configurations 65 HP PXE implementation is supported in the following environments: • Linux Red Hat PXE Server. HP PXE clients are able to

Adapter configurations 66 To boot in DOS and connect to a network for the DOS environment, download the Intel® PXE PDK from the Intel® web site. Thi

Adapter configurations 67 protocol. See the Microsoft website (http://www.microsoft.com) to download the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator installa

Adapter configurations 68 The HP NC32xx, NC37xx, NC380x, NC1020, NC6770, and NC77xx Gigabit Server Adapters have PXE support. PXE is a software prot

Adapter configurations 69 The current version of Windows® 2000 does not include a network driver for the NC32xx, NC37xx, NC380x, NC1020, NC6770, and

Overview 7 • Windows® 2000 (NDIS5) • Windows NT® 4.0 (NDIS4) (only supported on adapters that shipped before January 1, 2003) • DOS NDIS2* NetWa

Adapter configurations 70 • Compliance with the Wired for Management Baseline (WfM) 2.0 specification • Compatibility with legacy boot agent envir

Adapter configurations 71 The configuration setup menu shows a list of configuration settings on the left and their corresponding values on the righ

Adapter configurations 72 Configuration settings Possible values Description Setup Menu Wait Time • 0 seconds • 2 seconds • 3 seconds • 5 secon

Adapter configurations 73 is in the suspended state when this is enabled. It is strongly recommended that no more than two adapters should have this

Adapter configurations 74 Parameter Description -SAVE Saves existing Intel Boot Agent and EEPROM settings to a file. The file is named based on the

Adapter configurations 75 • 5–EEPROM read failure • 6–EEPROM write failure • 7–EEPROM dump failure • 8–(Not used) • 9–No memory • 10–No adapte

Adapter configurations 76 PCI configuration space could not be read. Machine is probably not PCI compliant. The Boot Agent was unable to read one or

Adapter configurations 77 Base code cannot be installed. An incorrect flash image is installed or the image has become corrupted. Try to update the

Adapter configurations 78 If you are accustomed to redefining your computer's boot order using the motherboard BIOS setup program, the default

Adapter configurations 79 • MAC Address—The individual address of the device as stored in the EEPROM • I/O—The I/O address for PCI access determin

Overview 8 5. Click HP ProLiant Networking Software. 6. Click download and save the HP SoftPaq (sp#####.exe) file to a directory on your hard drive.

Adapter configurations 80 Term / Abbreviation / Acronym Definition Flb Flash Library IA32 Shorthand for computer platforms based on Intel 32-bit

Adapter configurations 81 Term / Abbreviation / Acronym Definition RIS Remote Installation Services. A Microsoft® service that uses PXE to deliver

Adapter configurations 82 see a message referring to this value with the "$." The user must remember to enter the "$" character

Adapter configurations 83 o Normal Behavior: The value will be used by the PHY detection routine to locate and initialize the PHY. If a PHY is not f

Adapter configurations 84 o Default: 8, corresponding to 32 bytes or 8 dwords in the receive FIFO. o Normal Behavior: No message will be displayed.

Adapter configurations 85 o Normal Behavior: The value will be used to configure the 82557 at initialization time. Setting it to a low value will fo

Adapter configurations 86 CAUTION: If the number of buffers allocated causes the driver’s size to exceed MAXIMUM, the driver adjusts the number of

Adapter configurations 87 Keywords for N1000 NDIS2 driver The following describes how to configure the parameters for the NDIS 2 driver version 3.62

Adapter configurations 88 o Normal Behavior: The driver uses the value of the parameter to decide which adapter to control. o Possible Errors: If

Adapter configurations 89 o SLOT=0x7 • CACHEFLUSH parameter o Set this to 1 to hook the system Disk Buffer Flush interrupt. This causes the driver

Overview 9 Linux documentation • Linux readme.txt file is located in the \LINUX directory • HP iSCSI Boot User Guide for Linux in the \docs directo

Adapter configurations 90 To customize the Boot Agent configuration settings: 1. Highlight the setting you want to change using the arrow keys. The

Adapter configurations 91 Configuration settings Possible values Description Setup Menu Wait Time • 0 seconds • 2 seconds • 3 seconds • 5 secon

Adapter configurations 92 adapter receives before generating an interrupt). A high value improves CPU efficiency, but may reduce adapter bandwidth.

Adapter configurations 93 o Range 1000BASE-SX or -LX Adapters: Auto/Auto 10/100/1000 Adapters: Auto/Auto; 10/Half; 10/Full; 100/Half; 100/Full; 10

Adapter configurations 94 NC6132, NC6133, and NC6134: 80–768 (increments of 8) NC6136, NC7131, and NC7132: 80–256 (increments of 8) NC310F, NC340x

Adapter configurations 95 • Enable PME. (NC110T, NC310F, NC340x, NC360x, NC364T, NC6170, and NC7170 only) Allows the use of power management and wa

Adapter configurations 96 system memory used by the driver. If too few receive descriptors are used, performance suffers. If too many receive descri

Adapter configurations 97 o Default = Auto o Range = Auto, 10Mb, 100Mb • Flow Control. Specifies the type of flow control that is needed. o Defau

Adapter configurations 98 o SRB Timeout Delta. Increases or decreases the timeout value for I/O operations through the iSCSI HBA. Increasing this va

Adapter configurations 99 b. If prompted to restart your computer, click Yes. Rebooting the system for new adapter properties to take effect is not