User Manual
Table Of Contents
- ForceWare Networking Administrator’s Guide
- Introduction
- Installation Guidelines
- NVIDIA TCP/IP Acceleration Technology
- Administrative Tasks
- Using WMI Script
- Using The NVIDIA Command Line Interface (nCLI)
- Conventions Used
- About Examples Used
- Parameters
- Modes of Operation
- Using Single Parameters
- Using Table Parameters
- Browsing the Parameter Structure
- Text File Processing
- Support for Multiple Ethernet Interfaces
- Glossary
- Ethernet Parameters Reference
- Group: Remote Wakeup
- Group: Protocol Offload
- Group: Microsoft Operating System VLAN (Virtual LAN)
- Group: VLAN (Virtual LAN)
- Group: Jumbo Frame
- Group: Ethernet Performance
- Group: Traffic Prioritization
- Group: Ethernet Speed/Duplex
- Group: Ethernet Address
- Group: Network Interface information
- Group: Factory Default
- Table: Multicast Address List
- Group: Ethernet Statistics
- Frames Received with Alignment Error
- Frames Transmitted After One Collision
- Frames Transmitted After Two or More Collisions
- Frames Transmitted After Deferral
- Display Name Frames Exceed Maximum Collision
- Frames with Overrun Errors
- Frames with Underrun Errors
- Frames with Heartbeat Failure
- Carrier Sense (CRS) Signal Lost
- Late Collisions
- Group: General Networking Statistics
- NVIDIA TCP/IP Acceleration Parameters Reference
- Group: Feature Controls
- Group: Offload Default
- Group: Factory Default
- Table: Offloadable IP Address and Port Ranges
- Table: Application Offload Control
- Group: NVIDIA TCP/IP Acceleration Statistics
- Received TCP Payload Bytes
- Transmitted TCP Payload Bytes
- Received TCP Segments
- Transmitted TCP Segments
- Retransmitted TCP Segments
- Total ICMP “Destination Unreachable” Packets Received
- IP Fragments Received
- IP Packets Received with Options
- TCP Segments Received with Valid Reset Flag Set
- TCP Segments Transmitted with the Reset Flag Set
- Auto-ACKs Transmitted
- Table: Connection Table Information
- Glossary
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Appendix A Ethernet Parameters Reference
Group: Protocol Offload
Checksum Offload
IPv4 Transmit Checksum Offload
Parameter EthOffloadChkSum
Description
Enables or disables the Ethernet checksum offload feature. Offloads increase the
system performance by offloading TCP/IP CPU-intensive tasks to hardware.
Comment
This feature is not supported by WMI scripting.
Hierarchy
Namespace: NS_Eth
Namespace: NS_EthConfig
Group: NV_Eth_Offload
Single: EthOffloadChkSum
Usage example
nCLI Set "EthOffloadChkSum" "Enable"
Access
ReadWrite
Network restart
Required
Data type
Selection
User selection
Disable Enable
Parameter EthOffloadIPv4TxChkSum
Description
Enables or disables the IPv4 Transmit Checksum Offload feature. When this
feature is enabled, the operating system passes the task of calculating IP (Internet
Protocol) checksums for transmitted packets to the Ethernet hardware.
Comment
This parameter is not supported by WMI scripting. If EthOffloadChkSum is set to
Disable, this parameter value is ignored.
Hierarchy
Namespace: NS_Eth
Namespace: NS_EthConfig
Group: NV_Eth_Offload
Single: EthOffloadIPv4TxChkSum
Usage example:
nCLI Set "EthOffloadIPv4TxChkSum" "Enable"
Access
ReadWrite
Data type
Selection
User selection
Disable Enable
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