1252206Sdavidcs#$FreeBSD: releng/10.2/sys/dev/qlxge/README.txt 252206 2013-06-25 17:50:22Z davidcs $ 2252206Sdavidcs 3252206Sdavidcs README File 4252206Sdavidcs QLogic 8100 series Dual Port 5252206Sdavidcs10 Gigabit Ethernet & CNA Adapter Driver for FreeBSD 9.x/10.x 6252206Sdavidcs 7252206Sdavidcs QLogic Corporation. 8252206Sdavidcs All rights reserved. 9252206Sdavidcs 10252206Sdavidcs 11252206SdavidcsTable of Contents 12252206Sdavidcs1. Package Contents 13252206Sdavidcs2. OS Support 14252206Sdavidcs3. Supported Features 15252206Sdavidcs4. Using the Driver 16252206Sdavidcs 4.1 Installing the driver 17252206Sdavidcs 4.2 Removing the driver 18252206Sdavidcs5. Driver Parameters 19252206Sdavidcs6. Additional Notes 20252206Sdavidcs7. Contacting Support 21252206Sdavidcs 22252206Sdavidcs1. Package Contents 23252206Sdavidcs * Documentation 24252206Sdavidcs - README (this document) version:1.0 25252206Sdavidcs - Release Notes Version:1.0 26252206Sdavidcs * Driver (if_qlxge.ko) 27252206Sdavidcs - FreeBSD 9.x/10.x 28252206Sdavidcs * Firmware: pre-flashed on QLogic adapter; 29252206Sdavidcs 30252206Sdavidcs2. OS Support 31252206Sdavidcs 32252206SdavidcsThe Qlogic 10Gigabit Ethernet/CNA driver is compatible with the 33252206Sdavidcsfollowing OS platforms: 34252206Sdavidcs * FreeBSD 9.x/10.x (64-bit) [Intel EM64T, AMD64] 35252206Sdavidcs 36252206Sdavidcs3. Supported Features 37252206Sdavidcs10Gigabit Ethernet NIC/CNA driver supports following features 38252206Sdavidcs 39252206Sdavidcs* Large Segment Offload over TCP IPV4 40252206Sdavidcs* Large Segment Offload over TCP IPV6 41252206Sdavidcs* Receive Side scaling 42252206Sdavidcs* TCP over IPv4 checksum offload 43252206Sdavidcs* UDP over IPv4 checksum offload 44252206Sdavidcs* IPV4 checksum offload 45252206Sdavidcs* TCP over IPv6 checksum offload 46252206Sdavidcs* UDP over IPv6 checksum offload 47252206Sdavidcs* Jumbo frames 48252206Sdavidcs* VLAN Tag 49252206Sdavidcs 50252206Sdavidcs 51252206Sdavidcs4. Using the driver 52252206Sdavidcs 53252206Sdavidcs 4.1 Installing the driver 54252206Sdavidcs 55252206Sdavidcs - copy the driver file (if_qlxge.ko) into some directory (say qla_driver) 56252206Sdavidcs - cd <to qla_driver> 57252206Sdavidcs - kldload -v ./if_qlxge.ko 58252206Sdavidcs 59252206Sdavidcs 4.2 Removing the driver 60252206Sdavidcs 61252206Sdavidcs - kldunload if_qlxge 62252206Sdavidcs 63252206Sdavidcs5. Parameters to set prior to installing the driver 64252206Sdavidcs 65252206Sdavidcs - Add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot the machine prior 66252206Sdavidcs to installing the driver 67252206Sdavidcs 68252206Sdavidcs net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=262144 69252206Sdavidcs net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384 70252206Sdavidcs kern.ipc.nmbclusters=1000000 71252206Sdavidcs kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 72252206Sdavidcs net.inet.tcp.recvspace=131072 73252206Sdavidcs net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=262144 74252206Sdavidcs net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 75252206Sdavidcs 76252206Sdavidcs - If you do not want to reboot the system please run the following commands 77252206Sdavidcs 78252206Sdavidcs login or su to root 79252206Sdavidcs 80252206Sdavidcs sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=262144 81252206Sdavidcs sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384 82252206Sdavidcs sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters=1000000 83252206Sdavidcs sysctl kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 84252206Sdavidcs sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=131072 85252206Sdavidcs sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=262144 86252206Sdavidcs sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 87252206Sdavidcs 88252206Sdavidcs7. Contacting Support 89252206SdavidcsPlease feel free to contact your QLogic approved reseller or QLogic 90252206SdavidcsTechnical Support at any phase of integration for assistance. QLogic 91252206SdavidcsTechnical Support can be reached by the following methods: 92252206SdavidcsWeb: http://support.qlogic.com 93252206SdavidcsE-mail: support@qlogic.com 94252206Sdavidcs(c) Copyright 2013-14. All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic, the QLogic 95252206Sdavidcslogo, and the Powered by QLogic logo are registered trademarks of 96252206SdavidcsQLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks 97252206Sdavidcsor registered trademarks of their respective owners. 98