Adapter properties and configurations on netware – HP 441877-00F User Manual
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TCP Offload Engine (TOE). Enables the offloading of TCP connections to HP Multifunction Server
Adapters. Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is required.
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Default = Enabled
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Range = Disabled; Enabled
TOE will not work with the following features enabled: Windows Firewall; Internet Protocol security
(IPsec); Internet Protocol Network Address Translation (IPNAT); third-party firewalls; and NDIS 5.1
intermediate drivers. Download article number KB92222 from the Microsoft
e for more information.
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Receive-Side Scaling (RSS). Enables dynamic load balancing of incoming traffic across CPUs.
Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is required.
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Default = Enabled
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Range = Disabled; Enabled
Adapter properties and configurations on Netware
A network device driver must be installed before the Gigabit Ethernet adapter can be used with your
Novell NetWare system. Before you can successfully install the adapter driver for Novell NetWare, the
adapter card must be physically installed in the server and, typically, NetWare OS software must already
be running on the server. Make sure that your server meets the hardware and operating system software
requirements.
For an adapter installation with an existing NetWare server, NetWare will automatically detect the new
adapter and attempt to load the appropriate driver.
To enable the Gigabit Ethernet adapter to function correctly, you need to install the latest support pack
files. The latest support pack can be foun
Netware install program
A commonly used method to install a driver on a NetWare server is through NWCONFIG. The following
drivers are supported.
Driver configuration parameters
Parameter Options
Description
CheckSum =
Default = ON
Selections are: ON, OFF, Tx,
Rx
Enables or disables the transmit and receive
checksum off-loading feature. Checksum is
supported under NetWare 5.x only. If you
want to enable the CheckSum parameter, you
need to load it on the first instance.
Frame = type
Valid types are:
Ethernet_802.2,
Ethernet_802.3, Ethernet_II,
Ethernet_SNAP
Defines the frame type being used by this load
instance. Ethernet_802.2 and Ethernet_II are
the default values.
node =
NNNNNNNNNNNN
Specifies a node address in this field to
override the default Media Access Controller
(MAC) address (also known as the Locally
Administered Address)
name = text
Displays the name assigned to this adapter