Overview

The ie10g driver provides support for PCI 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Intel series of Gigabit controller chips.

The ie10g driver supports the following devices:

• Intel^® 10 Gigabit SR/AF Dual Port Server Adapter
• Intel^® 10 Gigabit SR/LR Server Adapter
• Intel^® 82598EB 10 Gigabit AF Network Connection
• Intel^® 82598EB 10 Gigabit AT CX4 Network Connection

For more information on configuring this device, see Common Network Driver Options or ifconfig.

Loader tunables

Tunables can be set in loader.cfg.

dev.ie10g%d.itr=n

Set interrupt throttling delay to n (default is 8000). n is the maximum number of interrupts per second.

dev.ie10g%d.jumboframes=1

Enable jumbo frames (>1500 bytes) for the device

Hardware

The ie10g driver supports Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters. The list of supported hardware may be found on INtime for Windows from the stack:

ldrta istack.rta -args -LL

Diagnostics

Diagnostic messages will be logged to System Event Log.

• ie10g%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory A fatal initialization error has occurred.
• ie10g%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with the network connection (cable).

Requirements