for distribution-specific information, see ldistrib.htm.

    compiling the driver

    when trying to compile the driver by running make install, the following error may occur: "linux kernel source not configured - missing version.h"

    to solve this issue, create the version.h file by going to the linux source tree and entering:

    make include/linux/version.h

    jumbo frames system requirement

    memory allocation failures have been observed on linux systems with 64 mb of ram or less that are running jumbo frames. if you are using jumbo frames, your system may require more than the advertised minimum requirement of 64 mb of system memory.

    multiple interfaces on same ethernet broadcast network

    due to the arp behavior on linux, it is not possible to have one system on two ip networks in the same ethernet broadcast domain (non-partitioned switch) behave as expected. all ethernet interfaces will respond to ip traffic for any ip address assigned to the system. this results in unbalanced receive traffic.

    when this occurs, transmits and receives for a single conversation can be split across different network interfaces. additionally, the server might have up to twice as much transmit capacity as receive capacity, which can result in the receive side being overrun and dropping receives.

    if you have multiple interfaces in a server, install them in different switches or partition the switch into vlans to prevent broadcast traffic from going to the wrong interface. this does not apply when using a teaming solution, like ans.