Mellanox BX5020 rev.A1 Gateway Firmware 8.5.0000 Download

Posted at April 25, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

Mellanox BX5020 rev.A1 Gateway Firmware 8.5.0000 Description

New Features:

- Added support for "ALL VLAN" vHub
- Increased the buffer size of VL15 to avoid packets’ drops
- Added support for filtering LLDP packets to FabricIT BXM
- Added Shared context table option - 5k vNICs
- Added DCBX support of receiving DCBX packets with a VLAN tag
- Added the ability to send FabricIT BXM Advertisement and Multicast vNIC alive messages
- Added the ability to send packets from external Ethernet ports to FabricIT BXM to enable LACP
- Modified SL2VL mapping to enables changes on the fly
- Added different tx serdes sets for different cables capability
- Added FCoE frame aging
- Added the ability to control external module tx_disable
- Added a verification test to check if the external Phy module exists only in PhyX mode
- Enabled 4th Fibre Channel port in FCoE
- Added bits for clause37 page timer
- Added offset calibration to rx training in Ethernet
- Added the ability to reset to cl37_active and idle_active in clause37 flow upon link failure
- Sent IDLEs and CL37 pages to work with Finisar and Delta modules
- Changed vl_arb_low_cap vl_arb_high_cap in port info mad
- Added the ability to compare application tlv in DCBX
- Added Fibre Channel counters: frames lost, r_rdys lost
- Added clause37 flow fix - Added phy_type indication for int port in device internal pib, flow checked sgmii linkup

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed an issue with the Fibre Channel RX adaptation flow.
- Fixed an issue with the software reset flow.
- Fixed an issue with the TrapRepress.

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