Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems
Installing Broadcom
NetXtreme II
Drivers and TOE
安装 Broadcom NetXtreme II
驱动程序和 TOE
Installation de pilotes Broadcom
NetXtreme II et du moteur TOE
Installation von Broadcom
NetXtreme II-Treibern und TOE
Broadcom NetXtreme II のドライバと TOE
のインストール
Broadcom NetXtreme II 드라이버
및 TOE 설치
Instalación de los controladores
Broadcom NetXtreme II y TOE

Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems
Installing Broadcom
NetXtreme II
Drivers and TOE

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This document provides important information about installing Broadcom
NetXtreme II drivers and also describes known limitations of the driver set
under various conditions. For further information about the Broadcom
drivers, see the release.txt file on the driver CD or in the downloadable
Broadcom driver package.
This document also provides information about installing and enabling
the TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) feature on your system and provides
important information about using TOE. For more information on TOE,
see the Power Solutions white paper "Boosting Data Transfer with TCP/IP
Offload Engine Technology" on support.dell.com.
Installing the Broadcom Drivers in Microsoft®
Windows®
To install the Broadcom driver package (NetXtreme version 10.5 or later and
NetXtreme II version 3.5 or later), run the setup.exe file that is provided by
Dell™ with the driver package. The Broadcom installer installs all of the
available package features by default. The setup.exe file can be accessed by
any of the following methods:
•Onthe Broadcom Driver Installation CD that shipped with your system,
the
setup.exe file is located in the Driver_Management_Apps_Installer
subdirectory under the directory of the version of Microsoft Windows you
are using.
• In Common Deploy and Update (CDU), the Broadcom driver package
and
setup.exe are located on the Service Mode CD.
• If you have downloaded the Broadcom driver package from
support.dell.com, uncompress the downloaded file and locate the
setup.exe file in the extracted directory. The setup.exe file is the preferred
method for installing the drivers on a local system. However, if you need to
install the drivers using the Windows Plug and Play method, you can
extract the drivers from the installer file by running
setup.exe /a and
specifying a directory for the extracted files.

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Requirements for TOE
The following hardware and software components are required to use TOE on
your TOE-capable system:
• Broadcom NetXtreme II-based networking device, drivers, and control
suite software.
NOTE: Currently, Broadcom 10GbE devices do not support TOE.
• Microsoft Windows Server
®
2003 operating system family (32-bit or
64-bit) updated to Service Pack 1 or later.
•
Additional if you are running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service
Pack 1:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack (SNP)
hotfix. For more information on the SNP hotfix, see
Knowledge Base
article 912222 available on the Microsoft support web site.
NOTE: SNP is already included in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with
Service Pack 2.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Broadcom 5708/5709 LOM devices come
standard with TOE enabled. See your system documentation to find out if
your system supports TOE.
Installing, Enabling, and Disabling TOE
If you have not already done so, install the Broadcom driver package by
running the setup.exe file included in the Broadcom driver package. See
"Installing the Broadcom Drivers in Microsoft® Windows®" earlier in this
document for more information.
The SNP hotfix is only required for Windows 2003 Service Pack 1. You can
download the hotfix from the Microsoft support web site. To begin the
installation, double-click the hotfix executable file and follow the on-screen
instructions. TOE is enabled by default once all the required components are
installed.
NOTE: Features of the driver package can be deselected, but you must install the
Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) application to configure and control TOE
settings.

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TOE is disabled through BACS (recommended), the netsh command,
or by registry change. For information on using BACS, see the Broadcom
NetXtreme II User’s Guide on the Dell Documentation CD, the Broadcom
Driver CD, or available at support.dell.com.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912222 for more information on using
the netsh command and registry changes to disable TOE.
If you need to turn off default SNP features in Windows Server 2003 or
Windows Small Business Server 2003, an update to enable this function is
available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948496.
Microsoft Updates for TOE
The following issues pertaining to TOE are documented on Microsoft’s
online knowlege-base web site:
• If you cannot host TCP connections when Receive Side Scaling is enabled,
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927695 .
• If TCP traffic stops after you enable both receive-side scaling and Internet
Connection Sharing in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1,
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927168 .
• If operation stops when synchronizing databases between two instances of
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services when TCP Chimney Offload
technology is enabled, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947065 .
• If you receive a general network error, communication link failure, or
transport-level error when an application connects to SQL Server on a
Windows Server 2003 system, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942861 .
• If a system running Windows Server 2003 stops responding during
shutdown after installing SNP, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940202 .
• If a stop error message is issued when a system with a TOE-enabled
adapter is running under low resources in Windows Server 2003,
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945466 .
• If an application stops responding or a read error is issued on a system
running Windows Server 2003 that also has a TCP Chimney Offload
network adapter, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947775 .

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• If a stop error message is issued when you perform a file operation on
a system running Windows Server 2003 that has IPv6 installed,
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942088 .
• If a system running Windows Server 2003 with the TCP Chimney feature
enabled restarts unexpectedly followed by a stop error message,
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949234 .
• If your system experiences reduced memory performance when you use
the
sockdie process with the -maxtput switch, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918369 .
• If your system is running Windows Server 2003 and it stops responding
when you try to enter the system into S4 system power state for
hibernation, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927622 .
• If a stop error message is issued after you install Windows Server 2003 SNP,
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918564 .
• If you experience a problem with a network application that uses NetBT
after you have installed Windows Server 2003 SNP, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924325 .
• If failover does not occur on network adapters teamed for TCP Offloading
on a Windows Server 2003 system, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921136 .
• If an error message is issued after you install Windows Server 2003 SNP
and then change the network settings, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919948 .
• If you experience network-related problems after you install Windows
Server 2003 SP2 or Windows Server 2003 SNP, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936594 .
• If users experience delayed logins when Password Management features are
enabled in ISA Server 2006, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555958 .

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Windows Remote Installation Services and
Unattended Installation
Because of the unique architecture of Broadcom NetXtreme II devices, there
are new process considerations when using the drivers in conjunction with
WinRE, WinPE, PXE, RIS and ADS. Dell has provided a specialized driver to
enable complete Remote Installation Services (RIS), WinRE, WinPE, PXE,
and ADS installation of all the drivers and applications in the Broadcom
driver package. For more information, see the document entitled Best
Practices for Installation of Microsoft Windows on Dell Servers with Broadcom
NetXtreme Devices on the Broadcom Driver CD.
Firewalls and TOE
Installing or activating firewall applications disables TOE for all TOE-enabled
NICs in a system. A firewall application must examine all incoming packets
and frames to implement its protection mechanisms. This firewall function is
incompatible with the packet-offload operation of TOE.
Windows Network Bridging, VPN,
and Routing With TOE
If you enable certain networking components in Windows such as VPN,
bridging, or routing services, the Windows operating system also enables
IP NAT and IPSEC Policy Agent by default. TOE will not function with these
services and disabling these services is not enough to re-enable TOE. You
must turn off IP NAT and IPSEC Policy Agent before TOE will function.
Use the following commands at a command prompt to turn off IP NAT and
IPSEC Policy Agent.
net stop accesspolicy <Enter>
net stop sharedaccess <Enter>
net stop ipnat <Enter>

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