HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534M Adapter - Manual (Page 13)

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• MAC Address is the physical media access control address that is assigned to the adapter by the
manufacturer. The physical address is never all 0s.
• Permanent MAC Address is the unique hardware address assigned to the network adapter.
• Offload Capabilities are capabilities supported by the adapter. This information is only available for
certain adapters.
o TOE allows simultaneous operation of up to 1024 fully offloaded TCP connections for 1-Gbps
network adapters and 1880 fully offloaded TCP connections for 10-Gbps network adapters to the
hardware.
o iSCSI indicates offload capability for block-level transfer of data.
o LSO prevents an upper level protocol such as TCP from breaking a large data packet into a series
of smaller packets with headers appended to them.
o CO allows the TCP/IP/UDP checksums for send and receive traffic to be calculated by the adapter
hardware rather than by the host CPU.
SR-IOV Switch Information
• Number of HW Available configures the number of available HW.
• Number of Available VFs configures the number of available VF.
• Max VF Chains Per VFs enters the number of maximum chains per VF.
• VF Chains Pool Size enters the pool size of VF chains.
• Switch Friendly Name enters the switch-friendly name.
Viewing resource information
The Resources section of the Information tab displays information about connections and other essential
functions for the selected network adapter. The available information depends on the network adapter
installed.
Resources
Bus Type is the input/output (I/O) interconnect type used by the adapter.
Viewing statistics
The information provided on the Statistics tab includes traffic statistics for different network adapters.
Available statistics vary depending on the network adapter installed.
To view statistics information for any installed network adapter, click the name of the adapter listed in the
Explorer View pane, and then click the Statistics tab. If any of the sections described below is not visible,
select Statistics from the Context View tab, and then select the name of the missing section.
Click Refresh to access the most recent values for each statistic. Click Reset to change all values to zero for
the current BACS session.
General Statistics
General Statistics show the transmitted and received statistics to and from the adapter.
• Frames Tx OK is a count of the frames that were successfully transmitted. This counter is incremented
when the transmit status is reported as Transmit OK.