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6–Configuring NIC Functionality in the Converged Network Adapter
Configuring the NIC in a Linux Environment
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tx-checksumming (tx) Enables or disables
hardware transmit
TCP/UDP checksum
On Off, On ethtool
scatter-gather (sg) Enables or disables
scatter-gather and
64-bit DMA on x86
On Off, On ethtool
tcp segmentation offload (tso) Enables or disables
TCP segmentation
offload
On Off, On ethtool
udp fragmentation offload (ufo) Enables or disables
UDP fragmentation
offload
Off On, Off ethtool
generic segmentation offload
(gso)
Enables or disables
generic segmenta-
tion offload
Off On, off ethtool
generic-receive-offload (gro) Enables or disables
generic receive
offload
Off On, off ethtool
qlge_irq_type Type of interrupt for
the network device to
use
0 0 = MSI-X
1 = MSI
2 = Legacy
Interrupts
Modprobe
qlge_mpi_coredump Enables or disables
allocation of memory
for an MPI firmware
dump
1 0 (disables)
1 (enables)
Modprobe
qlge_spool_coredump Enables or disables
spooling of firmware
dump to log.
0 1 (enables)
0 (disables)
Modprobe
debug Debug level
(0=none,...,16=all)
(int)
0 0–16 Sysfs
(/sys/class/net/
eth0)
Table 6-2. NIC Driver Parameters for Linux (Continued)
Parameter Name Description
Default
Value
Allowed
Values
Configuration
Method