iSCSI 4 C402D question

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Greetings! I got a hardware key labeled iSCSI 4 C402D for my PE R710 gen I with four Broadcom® NetXtreme® II 5709c NICs. I want to configure to use TOE (TCP/IP offloading engine) for network traffic and do it in Linux. I dont want to do iSCSI, atleast not currently. As far as I understand TOE and iSCSI are similar but yet different - iSCSI is for storage on the network. So would this key allow me to do only iSCSI or would unlock TOE aswell?

Daniel My · Accepted Answer

Hello

I show that TOE is a standard feature of the LAN on Motherboard. The hardware key enables iSCSI and RDMA. The manual may have this information, you can find it on the system support page.

http://www.dell.com/support/

Thanks

Georgi_ · Answer

Checked manual already - there is only information on how to install the hardware key. BIOS have information fields saying that NICs are TOE capable without inserting the key but it is unclear if that means I can use TOE without a key.

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