---
title: "Management NIC Port Breakout"
slug: "maintenance-gen4-management-port-speed"
updated: 2025-08-04T09:28:04Z
published: 2025-08-04T09:28:04Z
canonical: "docs.fmad.io/maintenance-gen4-management-port-speed"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Management NIC Port Breakout

The Gen4 management port speed can be configured from the system BIOS.

Using the KVM or Serial Over LAN enter the BIOS page.

### Step 1) Select Intel NIC

Find the Intel NIC in the Advanced tab as shown below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(333).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A08%3A40Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A08%3A40Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=1HCLs4YFTzFTuOWcPPciVn0ECHnpn7ulOtUlPqFG7JE%3D)

### Step 2) Select Device Level Config

Select Device level Configuration as shown below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(334).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A08%3A40Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A08%3A40Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=1HCLs4YFTzFTuOWcPPciVn0ECHnpn7ulOtUlPqFG7JE%3D)

### Step 3) Select Port Option Configuration

Select Port Option Configuration as shown below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(335).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A08%3A40Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A08%3A40Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=1HCLs4YFTzFTuOWcPPciVn0ECHnpn7ulOtUlPqFG7JE%3D)

### Step 4) Choose the port configuration mode

Select the target port mode

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(336).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A08%3A40Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A08%3A40Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=1HCLs4YFTzFTuOWcPPciVn0ECHnpn7ulOtUlPqFG7JE%3D)

### Step 5) Save & Exit

Press ESC key multiple times and go to Save & Exit

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(337).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A08%3A40Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A08%3A40Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=1HCLs4YFTzFTuOWcPPciVn0ECHnpn7ulOtUlPqFG7JE%3D)

Select YES

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(338).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A08%3A40Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A08%3A40Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=1HCLs4YFTzFTuOWcPPciVn0ECHnpn7ulOtUlPqFG7JE%3D)

### Step 6) Confirm port mode

System will reboot

Wait for FMADIO OS to boot then confirm the setting using

```plaintext
ifconfig -a
```

Expecting multiple interface named phy10, phy11, .. phy17 depending on the number of ports

In this example we configred 2×4×10G, total of 8 ports, thus expecting phy10 - phy17 present on the system

Example output shown below

```plaintext
phy10     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

phy11     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A1
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

phy12     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A2
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

phy13     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A3
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

phy14     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A4
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

phy15     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A5
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

phy16     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A6
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

phy17     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B4:96:91:CF:89:A7
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
```

### Step 7) Finished

Management Port configuration is finished