Mellanox Linux Drivers and Install Script for Mellanox ConnectX-3 Ethernet adapters, Mellanox OFED 2.1-1.0.0.1
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Linux Red Hat 6.4, 6.5 and SLES 11 drivers for Mellanox ConnectX-3 Ethernet adapters
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Fixes & Enhancements
FIXES -------- - Added reporting auto-negotiation support - Added Transmit Packet Steering (XPS) support - Added Receive Flow Steering (RFS) support in UDP - Added Low Latency Socket (LLS) support - Added check for dma_mapping errors
ENHANCEMENTS --------------------- - Ethernet Flow Steering (beta level) - Ethernet Performance Counters - Ethernet Performance Enhancements (NUMA related and others) for 10G and 40G - Raw Ethernet QPs: - Checksum TX/RX - Flow Steering - Errata Kernel upgrade support - YUM update support - Storage iSER (at Beta level) and SRP - 64bit wide counters (port xmit/recv data/packets unicast/mcast) - VERSION query API: library and headers
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DOWNLOAD 1 - Download the file MLNX_OFED_LINUX-2.1-1.0.0.1.tar.gz to a local hard drive or other storage media 2 - Go to the location where the the file has been downloaded 3 - Unpack the file with the following command: tar -xvf MLNX_OFED_LINUX-2.1-1.0.0.1.tar.gz.
INSTALL 1 - Go to the location where the file has been unpacked, then issue the following command: cd MLNX_OFED_LINUX-2.1-1.0.0.1 2 - Change to the directory (folder) corresponding to the Linux OS distribution being selected (such as rhel6.4 or sles11sp3). For example if rhel6.4 is the target OS, go to its folder (subdirectory) with the following command: cd rhel6/rhel6.4 3 - To install the selected package, Run the linux shell command: ./install.sh 4 - Follow the instructions on the screen.
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