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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