Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 series, Compute Blade 500 series Installation Manual page 41

NIC scheduling
mode
Note:
1 Supported device and LAN driver depend on the NIC installed in a server blade.
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To set up files and update drivers, follow these steps:
1 Customizing /etc/inittab
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Open the /etc/inittab file, and change the value in the file from "id:
5:initdefault:" to "id:3:initdefault:" and save it.
2 Customizing offload option
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For the value of offload option settings, see
settings on page
Customizing /sbin/ifup-pre-local file
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Setting the following in the file sets the use of offload option for guest
OS boot. If you enable the TCP Checksum Offload function in the LAN
controller, it can cause a LAN controller failure, which eventually
damage packets.
Be sure to configure offload settings according to the procedure in
Case a, b, or c.
a Using shared NIC and virtual NIC
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Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Device name
2-23.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
LAN driver
Table 2-6 Offload option
2-21