FMADIO Lab

In addition to FMADIO Capture 100G system, the complimentary FMADIO LAB system can be provided. This enables a lower cost high speed data offload device to retrieve and extract data from the capture system at a different location.

FMADIO LAB system uses a standard Intel network card instead of FMADIO FNIC fpga based adapters. The system can be configured in the following modes

• 8x 10G

• 4 x10G

• 4 x 25G

• 2 x 100G

NOTE: 2x40G is not supported but using LAG groups and 8x10G equivalent data rates can be achieved.

Update Intel NIC Firmware

Intel NIC firmware might require updating, per FMADIO Support request.

Step 1) Copy EFI images

Copy the updates to the system boot device as follows

sudo mkdir /mnt/system/utils
sudo cp -R /opt/fmadio/firmware/efi/* /mnt/system/utils/

Step 2) Boot into the BIOS to enable UEFI booting

Go to the BOOT menu at the top. Enable UEFI and Legacy boot per below

go to EXIT and "Save Changes and Exit"

Step 3) Boot the UEFI Shell

On reboot enter the BIOS menu again.

Go to EXIT and select "UEFI: Built in EFI Shell" menu option as shown below

Step 4) Run the Intel Firmware update Util

Run the following steps to

fs0:
cd utils
cd E810_4.30

as per below

Then run the update utility

nvmmupdate64e.efi

Select 1 and update the FW

After completion it will show something similar to below

Step 5) Complete

reboot the system or exit back to the BIOS

Management Port Speed

The general purpose network management port can be configured to run in different port speed modes.

Step 1) Enter UEFI Shell

To set these modes enter the UEFI shell by going into the BIOS screen -> EXIT -> Boot Override -> UEFI: Built in Application Shell as follows

The shell will look like the below images

Step 2) Run Port Speed Utility

In the UEFI shell run the following commands

fs0:
cd utils
cd ECT_1.39.56.9

Example shown below

Run the utility to retrive the current settings

epct64e.efi -nic=1 -get

Example output looks like below, in this case its running in 8x10G port mode

Step 3) Select the Port speed

Set the port speed such as 4x25

epct64e.efi -nic=1 -set 4x25

Example output shown below

Step 4) Reboot

Reboot the system and the new network port configuration settings will be available