Dell PowerEdge 2970 - Manual (Page 5)

Broadcom NetXtreme and NetXtreme II TOE
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This document provides important information about installing Broadcom NetXtreme and NetXtreme II
drivers and also describes known limitations of the driver set under various conditions. For further
information about the Broadcom drivers, see the ReadMeFirst.txt file on the driver CD or in the
downloadable Broadcom driver package.
This document also provides information about installing and enabling the TCP/IP Offload Engine
(TOE) feature on your system and provides important information about using TOE. For information
on setting up the Microsoft
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Windows
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operating system to work with Broadcom NetXtreme devices
and the TOE feature, see the engineering brief on support.dell.com entitled "Best Practices for
Installation of Microsoft Windows on Dell™ Servers With Broadcom NetXtreme Devices."
Installing the Broadcom Drivers in Microsoft Windows
To install the Broadcom driver package (NetXtreme version 8.3 or later and NetXtreme II version 2.6 or
later), run the setup.exe file that is provided on the
Broadcom Driver Installation CD that shipped with
your system. The setup.exe file is located in the Driver_Management_Apps_Installer directory under
the directory of the version of Microsoft Windows you are using.
The Broadcom setup.exe utility is also available on the Service Mode CD of Dell Server Assistant (DSA)
or can be downloaded as a compressed file from support.dell.com.
Using the setup.exe file is the preferred method for installing the drivers on a local system. All of the
available package features are installed by default using this method. If you need to install the drivers
using the Windows Plug and Play method, you can extract the drivers from the installer file by running
setup.exe /a
and specifying a directory for the extracted files.
Requirements for TOE
The following hardware and software components are required to use TOE on your TOE-capable system:
• Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708-based networking device, drivers, and control suite software.
• Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 operating system family (32-bit or 64-bit) updated to Service Pack 1
or later.
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix. (For more information on
the SNP hotfix, see Knowledge Base Article 912222 available on the Microsoft support web site.)
The TOE-capable Broadcom 5708-based networking devices are offered as integrated LAN-on-
Motherboard (LOM) and as an add-in PCIe adapter. The 5708-based LOM network devices on some
systems also require a license-enabling hardware key; see your system documentation for the location
and proper installation of this hardware key on your system board.