3Com 3C996B-T - Manual

Advanced Server Features Overview 3 Advanced Server Features for Windows NT The following options are supported under Windows NT Server operating systems (Server and Enterprise Server). See “Windows NT Driver Setup” on page 37 for additional information. Failover and Load Balance ■ Adapter teaming f...

1 Introduction 4 Virtual LAN (VLANs) ■ Up to 64 VLANs per NIC using IEEE 802.1Q-1988 tagging (64 is the maximum configurable, although 32 is the maximum operable). Offloading ■ IP, TCP/UDP checksum—NetWare 5.0 or greater only PCI Hot-Plug ■ Contact your OEM for more information. Advanced Server Feat...

Creating a Driver Disk 5 Creating a Driver Disk Create driver disks using the MakeDisk utility (setup.exe file). This utility will allow you to create disks with the following drivers: ■ Windows XP 32-bit Driver ■ Windows XP 64-bit Driver ■ Windows 2000 Driver ■ Windows NT Driver ■ NetWare Driver ■ ...

7 2 Installing and Connecting the NIC System Requirements Before installing the Gigabit Ethernet NIC, be sure your system meets the requirements listed for your operating system. Windows XP (64-bit) ■ Itanium-based computer that meets Windows XP software requirements ■ One open 32-bit or 64-bit PCI ...

2 Installing and Connecting the NIC 8 NetWare ■ Pentium-based computer that meets Novell NetWare 4.2/5.x/6.x software requirements ■ One open 32-bit or 64-bit PCI slot ■ PCI v2.2 33/66 MHz or PCI-x v1.0 64 bit 133 MHz ■ 128 MB RAM (minimum) ■ One of the following versions of Novell NetWare: ■ Novell...

Safety Precautions 9 Safety Precautions Observe the following safety precautions. Pre-Installation Checklist 1 Check that your server meets the hardware and software requirements listed under “System Requirements” on page 7. 2 Verify that your system is using the latest BIOS. 3 Review the informatio...

2 Installing and Connecting the NIC 10 Installing and Connecting the NIC This manual covers two types of Gigabit Server NICs: server Ethernet NIC (3C996B-T): and server fiber NIC (3C996-SX): The procedure for installing a NIC in a system is identical for both NICs. Connecting the network cables is d...

2 Installing and Connecting the NIC 12 Connecting the Network Cables Choose your type of NIC (Ethernet or fiber) and follow the procedure. Ethernet NICs Gigabit Ethernet NICs have one RJ-45 connector for attaching the system to an Ethernet copper-wire segment. When automatic link negotiation is disa...

Installing and Using the 3Com Connection Assistant 13 Fiber NIC 1 If you have not already done so, remove the optical dust cap from the NIC port. 2 Connect the NIC to the network using 62.5/125 µm or 50/125 µm mulitmode fiber-optic cable with SC duplex connectors. Installing and Using the 3Com Conne...

15 3 Windows XP Driver Setup Installing the Driver Software Before you begin software installation: ■ Make sure that all software installation requirements are met. See “System Requirements” on page 7. ■ Install the hardware. For instructions, see “Installing and Connecting the NIC” on page 7. Windo...

3 Windows XP Driver Setup 16 Windows XP 64-bit Use the following procedure to install the driver for the first time in a computer running Windows XP 64-bit version. 1 Start Windows and log in. You must have Network Administrator privileges to install the driver software 2 Insert the 3Com Installatio...

Verifying Successful Installation 17 Verifying Successful Installation 1 Right-click My Network Places and select Properties from the menu. 2 Check connections in the LAN or High-Speed Internet window. Modifying Configuration Parameters Although the default values should be appropriate in most cases...

Removing the Driver Software 19 7 When all desired configuration is complete, click OK to accept the settings. 8 Reloading your driver is recommended. To do so, right-click My Network Places . 9 Right-click the NIC and select Disable . You have unloaded the driver. 10 Right-click the NIC and select ...

3 Windows XP Driver Setup 20 7 Double-click baspi64i.exe to install Advanced Server Features. This will install the Advanced Server Features software and display a window. From this menu, you can create a team. See “Creating a Team and Assigning NICs” on page 21, or click OK to complete installation...

3 Windows XP Driver Setup 22 4 If a team has no NICs assigned, you will be prompted to add a NIC or delete the team. Click OK . When team has been correctly configured, one Virtual Team NIC driver will be created for each configured team and will appear along with the other NICs in the Local Area Co...

Configuring Advanced Server Features 23 Accessing the Adapter VLAN Configuration Interface Use this procedure to access the NIC properties for VLAN Configuration: 1 Click the Start menu, and then select Settings , Control Panel . 2 Double-click the Gigabit Ethernet NIC icon . The Advanced Server Fea...

4 Windows 2000 Driver Setup 34 Deleting a VLAN To delete a configured VLAN, follow these steps: 1 From the Advanced Server Features window, select the team from which you want to delete the VLAN, and then click Delete VLAN . The selected VLAN will be deleted from the VLAN list window. 2 When you hav...

37 5 Windows NT Driver Setup Installing the Driver Software Before you begin software installation: ■ Make sure that all installation requirements are met. See “System Requirements” on page 7. ■ Install the hardware. See “Installing and Connecting the NIC” on page 7. Use the following procedure to i...

5 Windows NT Driver Setup 38 11 Click Exit , and then perform the steps outlined in Completing NIC installation with Windows NT screen. 12 When prompted to restart your computer, click Yes . The system restarts, using the new configuration settings. 13 When the system returns to normal operation, ve...

5 Windows NT Driver Setup 40 Updating the Driver Software To replace version 4.0 NIC driver software with newer versions as they become available: 1 Start your Windows NT system and log in. You must have Network Administrator privileges to install the driver software. 2 Insert the 3Com Installation ...

Installing Advanced Server Features 41 Installing Advanced Server Features These features are only available for Windows NT Server and Enterprise Server operating systems. 1 Start your Windows NT system and log in. You must have Network Administrator privileges to install the driver software. 2 Inse...

5 Windows NT Driver Setup 42 Configuring Teaming Teaming configuration is optional. Before configuring Failover Teaming, see “NIC Teaming” on page 101. Configuring Teaming consists of the following tasks: ■ Accessing the Advanced Server Features Driver Properties ■ Creating teams ■ Adding NICs to th...

5 Windows NT Driver Setup 44 Configuring VLANs VLAN configuration is optional. Before configuring VLANs, see the “VLANs Overview” on page 102. By default, Gigabit Ethernet NICs are configured with VLAN support disabled. As many as 64 VLANs can be defined for each Gigabit Ethernet NIC on your server....

5 Windows NT Driver Setup 46 Installing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter Driver When you do a fresh installation of Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft recommends that you install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter driver, and then verify that networking is operating normally before installing any NICs. The Loopbac...

Performing a Fresh Installation of Windows NT on a Backup Domain Controller 47 1 Install Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 6a on two servers set up as primary domain controllers. (Follow the procedure in “Installing the MS Loopback Driver in Windows 4.0,” above.) 2 Connect the two servers to the same...

5 Windows NT Driver Setup 48 Stopping the Net Logon Service on SERVER 1 1 Double-click the Control Panel . 2 Double-click Services . 3 In the Services dialog box, select Net Logon . 4 Click Stop . 5 Click Yes to stop the net logon service. This unlocks the security database. 6 Close the Services dia...

51 6 Novell NetWare Driver Setup Pre-Installation Requirements ■ The NIC must be installed in the server. ■ Install the latest support pack files. The NetWare support pack or patch file(s) needed for your server operating system are indicated below: To obtain the latest support pack files, go to the...

Installing Novell NetWare Server 4.2 53 TxDescriptors = Default = 120Min = 100Max = 400 Pre-allocates ECB resources on the adapter for transmitting packets. RxFlow = Default = ONSelections are:ON, OFF Allows enabling/disabling of RxFlow control. TxFlow = Default = ONSelections are:ON, OFF Allows ena...

6 Novell NetWare Driver Setup 54 Installing Novell NetWare Server 5.1 Be sure that the server has the latest support pack available installed. The latest support packs can be found at: ">http://support.novell.com/misc/patlst.htm. You may want to create an archive disk by copying all the files from t...

Removing Drivers from Autoexec.ncf 55 # WARNING! # If you change the name of this server, you must update # all the licenses that are assigned to this server. Using # NWAdmin, double-click a license object and click # Certificate Assignments. If the old name of # this server appears, you must delete...

6 Novell NetWare Driver Setup 56 Installing Advanced Server Features 1 Load BASP.LAN just like a standard LAN driver with the same frame types loaded for the NIC in the team. BASP.LAN requires a special VSLOT parameter to specify the virtual slot. The virtual slot can be viewed as a team number. Exa...

Uninstalling Advanced Server Features 57 Load Balance and Trunk Mode Selection Use “MODE=SLB” for Load Balance mode or “MODE=TRUNK” for Generic Trunking mode. The default is load balance mode. Example: LOAD BASP.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=BASP_1_EII VSLOT=1 MODE=TRUNK Loading Frame Types After one o...

Uninstalling Advanced Server Features 59 Additional Command Line Keywords CHECKSUM=ON This enables BASP.LAN to offload TCP/UDP and IP checksums to the bound NIC if supported. This will improve performance if some or all NIC in the team support hardware checksums. Example:A team of two BCM5700 NICs w...

6 Novell NetWare Driver Setup 64 NIC Driver Configuration Parameters for Novell NetWare Parameter Options Description CheckSum = Default = ONSelections are:ON, OFF, Tx, Rx Enables or disables the transmit and receive checksum off-loading feature. Note that checksum is supported under NetWare 5.x onl...

65 7 Linux Driver Setup Installation Overview The driver is distributed in three packaging formats: binary RPM, source RPM, and compressed tar archive. The binary RPM includes precompiled driver modules for kernels 2.2.14-6.1.1 (Red Hat 6.2) and 2.2.16-22 (Red Hat 7.0), and is the preferred installa...

7 Linux Driver Setup 66 Patching PCI Files (Optional) To use Red Hat’s kudzu hardware detection utility, a number of files containing PCI vendor and device information need to be patched with information on the BCM5700 chip. A patch file (pci.patch) is included for Red Hat 7. Apply the patch by typi...

Advanced Server Features 67 ■ rx_flow_control Enables or disables receiving flow control (pause) frames. This parameter is used together with auto_flow_control. The valid values are: ■ tx_flow_control Enables or disables transmitting flow control (pause) frames. This parameter is used together with ...

7 Linux Driver Setup 68 Installing Advanced Server Features The driver is released in two packaging formats, source RPM and compressed tar archive. The file names for the two packages are bcm5700-<version>.src.rpm and bcm5700-<version>.tar.gz respectively. Identical files to build the dr...

Advanced Server Features 69 5 See “Configuring Teams” on page 69 to set up the teams. Configuring Teams 1 Copy a configuration script from “/etc/basp/samples” directory to “/etc/basp” directory. The configuration script must be prefixed with “team-”. 2 Modify the configuration script to: ■ change th...

7 Linux Driver Setup 70 BASPCFG Command Line Tool The baspcfg command line tool is used to configure the Advanced Server Features teams, add and remove NICs, and add and remove virtual devices. The following is an example of the usage of this tool. baspcfg v1.1.6 All rights reserved. usage: baspcfg ...

75 8 UNIX and SCO OpenServer Driver Setup UnixWare 7 Driver This procedure describes the installation procedure for the UnixWare 7 driver. The driver is released as a TAR file containing the set of object, configuration, and script files used to create the driver add-on package. Package Creation To ...

8 UNIX and SCO OpenServer Driver Setup 76 MAC Address No Override (default) - a user-administered MAC address entered with a colon separating each hexadecimal byte (e.g., 12:34:56:78:9a:bc). Jumbo MTU Size 1500 - 1900 (default is 1500). SCO OpenServer Release 5 Driver This procedure describes the in...

SCO OpenServer Release 5 Driver 77 Driver Installation To install the driver: 1 Install the SCO OpenServer driver from the media image or installation diskette using either: custom or scoadmin . 2 Add the new network adapter using: netconfig . 3 Modify the hardware configuration in Advanced Options ...

79 9 Solaris Driver Setup The Solaris Release 8 driver is released in two formats: 1 BRCMbcme.pkg (datastream format) 2 BRCMbcme.tar.Z (compressed and TAR file system format) Driver Installation To install the Solaris driver: 1 Change to the directory in which BRCMbcme.pkg resides. 2 Perform one of ...

9 Solaris Driver Setup 80 Customizing the Driver Configuration To customize the driver, edit /kernel/drv/bcme.conf and update the respective parameters in this file. These parameters are described below. ForceSpeedDuplex ForceSpeedDuplex configures the link (or instance) to a certain speed and duple...

Customizing the Driver Configuration 83 ndd Command Driver configurations can also be temporarily changed with the ndd command. Any changes made with this command are temporary and will be lost when you reboot the system. To make permanent configuration changes, modify bcme.conf instead. To display ...

85 10 3Com Management Programs Overview The 3Com Management Programs are an integrated graphical user interface application that provides status reports for all LAN NICs/controllers in your system (“Vital Sign”); a comprehensive diagnostics tool for Gigabit Ethernet controllers (“Diagnostics”); an i...

10 3Com Management Programs 86 Removing the Management Programs To remove the 3Com Management Programs software, do the following: 1 Select Start/Control Panel , then double-click Add/Remove Programs . 2 Select Management Programs and click Change/Remove . 3 Select Remove from the Modify, Repair, Re...

Initializing the Management Programs 87 ■ Memory Address: Indicates the memory mapped address that is assigned to the selected NIC. This value can never be zero. ■ PCI Bus Mode: Indicates the type and mode of PCI bus slot that is occupied by the selected NIC. The possible values of this parameter ar...

10 3Com Management Programs 88 page 97 for information about using the DOS Diagnostic program B57DIAG.exe to run the PHY Loopback Test.) ■ Test LED: Verifies that the NIC LED is working properly. Cable Analysis From the Cable Analysis screen, the user can monitor conditions of an Ethernet CAT5 cable...

Initializing the Management Programs 89 Load Balance/Virtual LANs The Load Balance/Virtual LANs screen allows you to configure advanced features. Any available NIC can be configured as part of a team. Teaming is a method of grouping multiple NICs to a virtual NIC (bundling multiple NICs to appear as...

Initializing the Management Programs 91 Saving the Configuration 1 With the Team and VLAN configuration loaded, click Save As at the Load Balance/ Virtual Lan tab. 2 At the Save As screen, enter the path and filename of the new configuration file. A “bcg” extension will be placed on the filename. Cl...

93 11 Troubleshooting Hardware Diagnostics Loopback diagnostic tests are available for testing the NIC hardware under Windows. These tests provide access to NIC internal/external diagnostics, where packet information is transmitted across the physical link. See “Diagnostics” on page 87. Checking Por...

11 Troubleshooting 94 Troubleshooting Checklist The following checklist provides recommended actions to take to resolve problems installing the Gigabit Ethernet NIC or running it in your system. ■ Inspect all cables and connections. Verify that the cable connections at the Gigabit Ethernet NIC and t...

Running Cable Analysis 95 NetWare From the command line, type config then press Enter . The following status information is displayed: 3Com Gigabit Ethernet NIC Version: Hardware Setting: Mode Address: Frame Type: Board Name: Lan Protocol: ARP (see note) Lan Protocol: IP Addr: (see note) Linux To ve...

11 Troubleshooting 96 Length The Length sub tab allows you to verify cable length and determine whether your configuration has the appropriate cable, which are calculated by cable loss and return loss algorithms. This utility allows you to determine whether the problem is with the adapter or in the ...

DOS Diagnostic Failures 97 Linux To verify that the Ethernet interface is up and running, run ifconfig to check the status of the Ethernet interface. To check the statistics on the Ethernet interface, you can also use netstat -i . Consult manual pages for more information on ifconfig and netstat . D...

99 A Key Protocols and Interfaces CIM The Common Information Model (CIM) is an industry standard defined by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Microsoft implements CIM on Windows platforms such as Windows 2000. 3Com will support CIM on the Windows 2000 platform. The 3Com implementation of...

A Key Protocols and Interfaces 100 DMI The DMI PCI Hot-Plug service operates in conjunction with the DMI Service Provider software component. It provides hot-swap/ hot-add functionality for the NIC in Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 hot plug systems. You should consult the system documentation to de...

NIC Teaming 101 NIC Teaming Teaming provides traffic load balancing and redundant NIC operation in the event that a network connection fails. When multiple Gigabit Ethernet NICs are installed in the same server, they can be grouped into teams. Each team, with up to 8 ports or 8 NICs, can be configur...

A Key Protocols and Interfaces 102 Failover Teaming Failover Teaming provides redundant NIC operation in the event that a network connection fails. When multiple Gigabit Ethernet NICs are installed in the same server, they can be grouped into teams. Each team must have at least one NIC, but can supp...

105 B Installing and Using the Managed PC Boot Agent Booting From the Network This section explains how to use the Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) to boot from the network. MBA allows the PC to boot from the server rather than from its local hard drive. MBA is compliant with the Wired for Management, Pr...

B Installing and Using the Managed PC Boot Agent 106 Non-BBS BIOS-Compatible PCs To enable a non-BBS BIOS-compatible PC to boot from the network using the MBA boot ROM: 1 Make sure that the NIC boot ROM setting is Enabled. See “” on page 106 for instructions. 2 Change the MBA default boot setting fr...

107 C Specifications 10/100/1000 BASE-T Cable Specifications Performance Specifications Physical Characteristics Power Requirements Port Type Connector Media Maximum Distance 10BASE-T RJ-45 Cat. 3, 4, or 5 UTP 100 meters (325 ft) 100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 Cat. 5 UTP 100 meters (325 ft) NOTE: 1000BASE-T s...

C Specifications 108 Environmental Specifications Condition Operating Specification Storage Specification Temperature 0°C to 55°C (+32°F to +131°F) –40°C to +85°C (–40°F to +185°F) Relative humidity 5% to 85% (non-condensing)40°C, 16 hour dwells at extremes 5% to 95% (non-condensing)10°C/hour Altitu...

109 D Technical Support 3Com provides easy access to technical support information through a variety of services. This appendix describes these services. Information contained in this appendix is correct at time of publication. For the very latest, 3Com recommends that you access the 3Com Corporatio...

D Technical Support 110 Support from Your Network Supplier If additional assistance is required, contact your network supplier. Many suppliers are authorized 3Com service partners who are qualified to provide a variety of services, including network planning, installation, hardware maintenance, appl...

Returning Products for Repair 111 Returning Products for Repair Before you send a product directly to 3Com for repair, you must first obtain a Return Materials Authorization (RMA) number. Products sent to 3Com without RMA numbers will be returned to the sender unopened, at the sender’s expense. To o...

113 Regulatory Information FCC Class A Verification Statement WARNING: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules, and the Canadian Department of Communications Equipment Standards entitled, “Digital Apparatus...

Regulatory Information 114 FCC Declaration of Conformity We declare under our sole responsibility that the to which this declaration relates, are in conformity with the following standards or other normative documents: ■ ANSI C63.4-1992 Methods of Measurement Federal Communications Commission 47 CFR...

1 Index Numerics 10 LED 93100 LED 931000 LED 931000BASE-T signaling requirements 1232-bit PCI bus master 1033Com 10/100 server NICs 2, 33Com Connection Assistant 133Com Management Programs 4, 23, 26, 30, 34, 38, 45, 85 to 92 Cable Analysis 88Diagnostics 87initialization 86installation 85removing 86V...