Silicon Power Computer & comm 74669003 manual Scope of this Guide, Related Publications

About this Guide

Scope of this Guide

This guide is written to facilitate installation of the adapter and does not cover detailed points of network configuration. It contains the following chapters:

•Chapter 1, "Features and Capabilities of the SGI 10-Gbit Ethernet Network Adapter", summarizes features, cabling, configuration limits, and tools.

•Chapter 2, "Connecting the Adapter to a Network", shows you how to connect the adapter to your network.

•Chapter 3, "Operating the Adapter", explains how to verify installation of the adapter and software, how to reset the adapter, how to set parameters to improve performance, and how to set configuration parameters.

•Chapter 4, "Performance Tuning", discusses performance tuning topics for IRIX and SGI ProPack for Linux.

Related Publications

This guide is part of a document set that fully supports the installation, operation, and service of the adapter. For more information about installing and servicing the adapter, see the user’s guide for the system in which the adapter is installed.

Also see the following:

•IRIX Admin: Networking and Mail

•Linux Configuration and Operations Guide

•The Network Administrators’ Guide

•The Intel Corporation 10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology Overview white paper:

http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/white_papers/pro10gbe_lr_sa_wp.pdf

•The Neterion Xframe Adapter Quick Installation and Configuration Guide: http://www.neterion.com/support/drivers/supportdocs/Xframe-quickICG.pdf

•IRIX man pages that are part of the 10-Gbit Ethernet product:

–xg(7M)

–xgcmd(1M)

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