readme.txt Driver File Contents (EN1408Tv102.zip)

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*                           Accton Technology Corp                           *
*               Accton EN1407T/EN1408T Giga-bit Ethernet Adapter             *
*Linux Server Link Aggregation Driver Installation Information (Kernel 2.2.x)*
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   A) Loading and Configuring the Driver manually for RedHat 6.X or 7.0


A) Loading and Configuring the Driver manually for RedHat 6.X or 7.0
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   1) Logging into the Linux system as supervisor (root),
      then enter Maintenance mode.
      (Note: Make sure that the current directory is "/")
      Please follow the following steps to uncompress the package file:

      #mcopy a:/linux/2_2/la/la_acc.zip
      #unzip la_acc.zip
      #cd /link_aggr/utility

      Now the installation directory is ready for use.
   2) The following sections describe configuration of the driver.
      It is suggested that you should carry out these instructions in a
      singler-user environment.
      1) Loading the Linux device driver module simply run the command:

         #sh aggrconf.acc.sh -l
         #sh aggrconf.acc.sh -c
   
         The driver module parameters are default values.
         You can also specify command line parameters for the driver, such as:

         #sh aggrconf.acc.sh -l -n 0 -s 100 -a 0
         #sh aggrconf.acc.sh -c

         Note: All the below parameters can be set using above utility with
               various options during loading of the driver.
      2) You can also modify driver module parameters in the file
         aggrconf.acc.sh:

         #cd /link_aggr/aggrconf.acc.sh
         #vi aggrconf.acc.sh
         #sh aggrconf.acc.sh -l
         #sh aggrconf.acc.sh -c

         The various tunable parameters are:
         a) MaxTxDesc 
            This is the maximum number of transmit descriptors that will be
            allocated.
            This value should be atleast 100. The default value is 200.
         b) MaxRxDesc
            This is the maximum number of receive descriptors that will be
            allocated.
            This value should be atleast 100. The default value is 200.
         c) RxBufSize
            This is the size of the receive descriptors that are allocated.
            The default value is 2048. It should be 2048 for good performances.
            The values of this should be 4096 when using jumbo frames to get
            better performances.
         d) SetAutoNeg
            This is the flag to request Auto Negotiation. A value of 1 will
            enable auto negotiation and a value of 0 indicates disabling
            auto negotiation, in this scenario the MediaSpeed can be set
            appropriately to force the Link speed to the desired value.
            Default value is 1.
         e) MediaSpeed
            This value indicates the MediaSpeed to which the NIC should be
            forced to, in the case of Auto Negotiation being disabled.
            This value assumes significance only when SetAutoNeg = 0.
            The default is 1000.
         f) NCBit
            If IEEE Compliance then NCBit should have value 1 else 0.
            Default value is 1.
           
   3) To try jumbo frames, the mtu size can be increased using the ifconfig
      utility, as follows #ifconfig <interface-name> mtu <mtu-size>:

      #ifconfig eth0 mtu 4000

      The "RxBufSize" tunable parameter should have a value of 4096 to get
      better performance when using jumbo frames.
      <mtu-size> can be increased upto 4000 bytes for sane operation.
   4) Assuming the NIC has been assigned the device name eth0, the following
      command brings the NIC into an operational state:
 
      #ifconfig eth0 up

   5) Next the driver must be bound to an active protocol, almost always TCP/IP,
      using the following command:

      #ifup eth0

      Note: that this is meaningful only if the system can find a configuration
      script that contains the necessary network info. A sample will be given
      below.

      Configuration script sample, Here a sample of a simple configuration
      script:

      DEVICE=eth0
      USERCTL=no
      ONBOOT=yes
      BOOTPROTO=none
      BROADCAST=207.200.5.255
      NETWORK=207.200.5.0
      NETMASK=255.255.255.0
      IPADDR=207.200.5.2


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