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Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module User's Guide Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module Documentation Library |
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Overview of Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM User's Guide
Features of the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM
Performing Hot Plug Insertion and Removal
Installing or Replacing the Virtualized M2 NEM
Installing and Removing SFP+ Optical Transceiver Modules
Booting Over the Virtualized M2 NEM 10-Gigabit Ethernet Port
Booting over the Network With an x86 Blade Server
Booting over the Network With a SPARC Blade Server
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform
How to Configure the Network Host Files
Configuring the hxge Device Driver Parameters
Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Linux Platform
Installing and Removing the Driver on a Linux Platform
Configuring the Network Interface
Checking and Testing the hxge Device
Changing the hxge Driver Configuration
How to Temporarily Configure Jumbo Frames Support
How to Permanently Enable Jumbo Frame Support
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a VMware ESX Server Platform
Installing the ESX Server Drivers on an Existing ESX Server
Installing the ESX Server Drivers With a New ESX Installation
Configuring the Virtual NEM M2 Network Adapters
Accessing ILOM Documentation and Updates
Enabling Private and Failover Mode
By default, Linux configures Ethernet network interfaces to support only standard-size Ethernet frames (1500 bytes). The NEM hardware supports Ethernet Jumbo Frames of up to 9216 bytes.
To enable hxge network interface support of Ethernet jumbo frames, use the ifconfig(8) command to set the network interface maximum transition unit (MTU) parameter to the desired frame size.
Note that there is no official or standard jumbo frame size specification. While the exact size chosen for your network’s jumbo frame support is typically not important, it is important that you configure all communicating nodes on the network to have the same size (in case a packet-size error occurs and the packet gets discarded).
Note - The commands shown in the following examples can be used for both RHEL and SLES.
This section covers the following topics: