Advanced Properties

Instant Gigabit Series

Overview

These settings are provided to help troubleshoot the Adapter and to help con- figure the Adapter if your situation involves unusual circumstances. The default settings of the Adapter should work in most cases. These settings should not be altered without a thorough understanding of the specifics of your network. If you change ANY of these settings, there is a good possibility that the Adapter will not function properly and/or not be recognized by the network.

Auto Negotiate Capabilities: (Enable or Disable)

Auto negotiates LAN speed and duplex.

IEEE Compliance

Enable: (Enable or

Disable)

Choosing Disable may prevent the device from commmunicating with other devices set to operate on the IEEE Standard.

Interrupt Hold Off Time: 1 (0-255) Specifies the time the adapter will wait for a busy interrupt request. Higher values indicate a longer wait time for the IRQ to be free before repeating a request.

Jumbo Frame Size: 0 (0 - 65,535)

The IEEE 802.3 standard specifies the maximum size of Ethernet frames at 1,518 bytes. A jumbo frame is simply one having up to 65,535 bytes. In a case where a server has to receive a massive amount of data, the required overhead of processing the individual frames could have negative effects on the server's CPU, and ultimately on overall server performance.

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Network Address:

Allows the user to configure the network address of the adapter, rather than using the one in ROM. If not specified, the address on the adapter will be used.

Network Media:

Specifies the maximum speed at which the adapter will try to negotiate a connection.

Offload Rx IP Checksum: Enabled

Offload Rx TcP Checksum: Enabled

Offload Rx UDP Checksum: Enabled

Offload Tx IP Checksum: Enabled

Offload Tx TCP Checksum: Enabled

Offload Tx UDP Checksum: Enabled

The above commands allow offloading various Tx and Rx processes to the Instant Gigabit Network Adapter, freeing up system resources.

Pause Frames Count:

Flow control uses pause frames to communicate buffer status between linked transmitting and receiving devices (transmitters and receivers). A receiver sends a pause frame to tell a transmitter to stop transmitting data frames for a specified period, allowing the receiver's input port buffers to empty.

Pause Frames High Threshold:

When a transmitter receives pause frames, it suspends transmission for the specified period or until the High Threshold is reached.

Receive Drain Threshold:

Number of bytes in the current packet being drained from the rxDataFIFO that are in fact currently in the rxDataFIFO (Note: packets larger than FIFO size, this number will never be greater than the FIFO size).

Transmit Buffer Count: 1024 (64 - 4096)

This specifies number of transmit buffers to configure.

Transmit Drain Threshold:

This sets the maximum packet size that can be handled by the adapter since transmit packets cannot span buffers. If not specified, this will default depending on the amount of SRAM available and the maximum packet size supported by the adapter.

Transmit Fill Threshold:

This setting determines the maximum number of transmits which may be queued.

EG0801SK specifications

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