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4Click the appropriate button to continue. See Table 4-8.

Table 4-2. Network Settings

Setting Description

NIC Selection Configures the current mode out of the four possible modes:

•Dedicated

•Shared (LOM1)

•Shared with Failover LOM2

•Shared with Failover All LOMs

NOTE: The Dedicated option is only available for iDRAC Enterprise cards and the Shared with Failover All LOMs option may be available only for few systems.

iDRAC6 will not communicate locally through the same physical port if NIC selection is set to either Shared or Shared with Failover modes. This is because a network switch will not send out packets through the same port it received the packets.

If the NIC selection is set to Shared with Failover (LOM 2 or all LOMs), it is recommended not to connect the LOMs to diffferent network broadcast domains.

It is recommended not to team LOMs with add-in network controllers when iDRAC is configured for any shared mode. Any type of team between the LOMs is acceptable irrespective of the NIC selection mode (shared/shared with failover LOM2/shared with failover all LOMs.)

MAC Address Displays the Media Access Control (MAC) address that uniquely identifies each node in a network.

Enable NIC When checked, indicates that the NIC is enabled and activates the remaining controls in this group. When a NIC is disabled, all communication to and from the iDRAC6 via the network is blocked.

The default is On.

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