HII NIC Configuration
In the following menu, you can set the following options:
This menu includes attributes that are applicable only to Legacy mode, except for PKEY which is valid for both the UEFI and the Legacy mode.
This setting will appear in the boot menu only for selected adapters that support the feature, and only in VPI adapter cards.
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Description: |
When enabled, DHCP packets are sent with Client-Id option (61) that includes "HW type(0x20)" + "GUID" instead of "NVIDIA Prefix" + "GUID". |
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Configurable: |
Yes |
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Available Options |
1 - Enabled 2 - Disabled |
This setting will appear in the boot menu only for selected adapters that support the feature, and only in VPI adapter cards.
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Description: |
When enabled, DHCP discovery packets are sent with HW-addr= GUID instead of a MAC address. |
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Configurable: |
Yes |
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Available Options |
1 - Enabled 2 - Disabled |
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Location |
System setup/Port main configurations/NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
Disable/Enable legacy Interrupt support. Note: If enabled, the Flexboot driver will use polling mode to get RX traffic instead of waiting for the Interrupt. |
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Configurable: |
Yes - built-in option |
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Available Options |
1 - Enabled 2 - Disabled |
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Location: |
Main Configuration Form /NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
Defines the Banner's timeout |
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Configurable: |
Yes – via input – If virtualization mode is SR-IOV |
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Persistency: |
Persistent through AC cycle |
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Reboot required: |
Yes – reboot is needed in order for this change to apply |
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Available options: |
0-14 sec |
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Location: |
Main Configuration Form /NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
Use a non-UEFI network boot protocol. Notes: 1 - If set to NONE, the boot will be skipped in this port. 2 - If all the ports per Bus Device function (BDF) are set to NONE, a BEV entry is not registered. |
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Configurable: |
Yes – built-in options |
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Persistency: |
Persistent through AC cycle |
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Available options: |
1 - None – no PXE boot, no iSCSI boot 2 - PXE – PXE first and if failed, try iSCSI 3 - iSCSI – iSCSI first and if failed, try PXE 4 - PXE without fail-over - PXE boot without fail-over to iSCSI boot 5 - iSCSI without fail-over - iSCSI boot without fail-over to PXE boot |
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Location: |
System setup/Port Main Configurations/NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
Select which IP protocol version will be used when booting. If both are configured, FlexBoot will try to boot with the 2nd protocol only if failed to boot with the 1st one. |
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Configurable: |
Yes – built-in options |
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Persistency: |
Persistent through AC cycle |
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Available options: |
1 - IPv4 2 - IPv6 3 - IPv4/IPv6 |
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Location: |
Main Configuration Form /NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
Enable/Disable VLAN tagging on the selected boot protocol. |
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Configurable: |
Yes – built-in options: Ethernet mode only. |
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Persistency: |
Persistent through AC cycle |
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Available options: |
1 - Enabled 2 - Disabled |
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Location: |
Main Configuration Form /NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
Uses the VLAN tag with the selected boot protocol. |
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Configurable: |
Yes – via input – If virtual LAN mode is enabled |
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Value restrictions: |
The minimum integer value is 1 and Maximum integer value is 4094. |
PKey setting will appear in the boot menu only for selected adapters that support the feature and only in VPI adapter cards.
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Location: |
Main Configuration Form /NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
PKey ID to be used by PXE boot. If 0 is selected, the default PKey will be used. |
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Configurable: |
Yes – via input – If PKey is supported: InfiniBand mode only. |
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Value restrictions: |
The minimum integer value is 0 and Maximum integer value is 65535. |
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Location: |
Main Configuration Form /NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
The number of retries to attempt in case of a boot failure. |
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Configurable: |
Yes – built-in options |
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Persistency: |
Persistent through AC cycle |
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Available options: |
0 - No retries 1 - Retry 2 - Retries 3 - Retries 4 - Retries 5 - Retries 6 - Retries 7 - Indefinite Retries |
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Location: |
Main Configuration Form /NIC Configuration |
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Description: |
Status of Wake on LAN feature. When set, it enables the server to be powered using an in-band magic packet. Only valid for adapters that support Wake on LAN. |
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Configurable: |
Yes – built-in options |
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Persistency: |
Persistent through AC cycle |
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Available options: |
1 - Enabled 2 - Disabled |