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Adapter properties and configurations on netware – HP 441877-00F User Manual

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recommended selection is Off and it is the default setting. To disable Flow Control, select Off from

the Value list on the Advanced tab.

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Default = Off

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Range = Off, Generate, Respond, Respond and Generate
Off. PAUSE frame receipt and transmission is disabled
Generate. PAUSE frame transmission is enabled
Respond. PAUSE frame receipt is enabled
Respond and Generate. PAUSE frame receipt and transmission is enabled

Link Speed & Duplex. Allows the user to set the connection speed to the network and mode. Full-
Duplex Mode allows the adapter to transmit and receive network data simultaneously.

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Default = Auto Detect

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Range

100 Mbps/Full-Duplex: Sets the speed at 100 Mbps and mode to Full-Duplex
100 Mbps/Half-Duplex: Sets the speed at 100 Mbps and mode to Half-Duplex
10 Mbps/Full-Duplex: Sets the speed at 10 Mbps and mode to Full-Duplex
10 Mbps/Half-Duplex: Sets the speed at 10 Mbps and mode to Half-Duplex
Auto Detect: Sets the speed and mode for optimum network connection

Locally Administered Address. Specifies the user-defined MAC Address of the adapter; overrides the
burned-in MAC Address. This is a read-only field if the adapter is teamed.

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Default = Not Present

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Range = Value; Not Present

Receive Buffers. Specifies the number of buffers used by the driver when copying data to the protocol
memory. In high network load situations, increasing receive buffers can increase performance. The

tradeoff is that this also increases the amount of system memory used by the driver. If too few receive

buffers are used, performance suffers. If too many receive buffers are used, the driver unnecessarily
consumes memory resources.

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Default = 48

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Range = 8–1024 (increments of 1)

Transmit Control Blocks. Specifies the number of resources that are allocated to transmit packets.

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Default = 16

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Range = 1–64

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.