Extended configurations – Dell PowerEdge C6145 User Manual

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Extended Configurations

Table 6-4. Extended configurations

Extended Configurations

All strings are in P-String format.

Configuration ID = 02h, NIC

Attribute

ID Size

Description

NicSelection

1 1

Specifies the current mode

of operation for the BMC

network interface.

0: Shared NIC (default)

1: Dedicated NIC

R/W

SharedNICSelection 2 1

This parameter is only

valid when Attribute ID 1

NICSelection parameter is

set to 0h as Shared NIC.
0h: Reserved (Recommend

to set to 0h when

NICSelection is set to

Dedicated NIC.)
1h: NIC-1 (default)
2h: NIC-2
3h: NIC-3
4h: NIC-4

Note: According to DCS I/O guide

line, RJ45 connectors should be

labeled starting from NIC-1. It also

requires that Dedicated BMC NIC

should always be the largest

number (last port number).

Therefore this Attribute ID

parameter only requires to support

the available Shared NIC numbers

according to the labeled numbers,

regardless of the NC-SI topology

(i.e. Single Channel Dual Package

R/W

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