1 2 README File 3 QLogic 8100 series Dual Port 410 Gigabit Ethernet & CNA Adapter Driver for FreeBSD 9.x/10.x 5 6 QLogic Corporation. 7 All rights reserved. 8 9 10Table of Contents 111. Package Contents 122. OS Support 133. Supported Features 144. Using the Driver 15 4.1 Installing the driver 16 4.2 Removing the driver 175. Driver Parameters 186. Additional Notes 197. Contacting Support 20 211. Package Contents 22 * Documentation 23 - README (this document) version:1.0 24 - Release Notes Version:1.0 25 * Driver (if_qlxge.ko) 26 - FreeBSD 9.x/10.x 27 * Firmware: pre-flashed on QLogic adapter; 28 292. OS Support 30 31The Qlogic 10Gigabit Ethernet/CNA driver is compatible with the 32following OS platforms: 33 * FreeBSD 9.x/10.x (64-bit) [Intel EM64T, AMD64] 34 353. Supported Features 3610Gigabit Ethernet NIC/CNA driver supports following features 37 38* Large Segment Offload over TCP IPV4 39* Large Segment Offload over TCP IPV6 40* Receive Side scaling 41* TCP over IPv4 checksum offload 42* UDP over IPv4 checksum offload 43* IPV4 checksum offload 44* TCP over IPv6 checksum offload 45* UDP over IPv6 checksum offload 46* Jumbo frames 47* VLAN Tag 48 49 504. Using the driver 51 52 4.1 Installing the driver 53 54 - copy the driver file (if_qlxge.ko) into some directory (say qla_driver) 55 - cd <to qla_driver> 56 - kldload -v ./if_qlxge.ko 57 58 4.2 Removing the driver 59 60 - kldunload if_qlxge 61 625. Parameters to set prior to installing the driver 63 64 - Add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot the machine prior 65 to installing the driver 66 67 net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=262144 68 net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384 69 kern.ipc.nmbclusters=1000000 70 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 71 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=131072 72 net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=262144 73 net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 74 75 - If you do not want to reboot the system please run the following commands 76 77 login or su to root 78 79 sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=262144 80 sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384 81 sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters=1000000 82 sysctl kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 83 sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=131072 84 sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=262144 85 sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 86 877. Contacting Support 88Please feel free to contact your QLogic approved reseller or QLogic 89Technical Support at any phase of integration for assistance. QLogic 90Technical Support can be reached by the following methods: 91Web: http://support.qlogic.com 92E-mail: support@qlogic.com 93(c) Copyright 2013-14. All rights reserved worldwide. QLogic, the QLogic 94logo, and the Powered by QLogic logo are registered trademarks of 95QLogic Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks 96or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 97