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Advanced Settings for BMC Ethernet

Table 1. Advanced Settings for BMC Ethernet
ItemOptionsDescription
Autonegotiation

  • No

  • Yes

  • [No]: You can manually choose the data rate and duplex mode.

  • [Yes]: There is no manual configuration needed.

Note

  • This option is platform dependent (for instance, Protofino does not support it).

  • This feature is unable to reset to default value by using the load default in Setup.

Data rate

  • 100 Mb (Ethernet)

  • 10 Mb (Ethernet)

Configure amount of the data to be transferred per second over LAN connection.

Note

  • This feature appears only when Autonegotiation is set to [No].

  • This feature is unable to reset to default value by using the load default in Setup.

Duplex

  • Half

  • Full

Set type of communication channel used in the network.

[Full] allows the data to be transferred in both directions simultaneously.

[Half] allows the data to be transferred in one direction at a time.

  • This feature appears only when Autonegotiation is set to [No].

  • This feature is unable to reset to default value by using the load default in Setup.

Maximum Transmission Unit

1500

Specify the maximum size of a packet (in bytes) for the network interface.

For IPv4 networks, the MTU range is from 68-1500 bytes

For IPv6 networks, the MTU range is from 1280-1500 bytes.

Note: Changes will be valid after saving network settings in previous page.