Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT rev.Ax Network Card Firmware 2.35.5100 Download

Posted at November 5, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT rev.Ax Network Card Firmware 2.35.5100 Description

Changes and New Features:

- New performance and back-pressure counters command via PRM (For further information, please refer to the PRM)
- Support for Multicast/Unicast sniffer rules (For further information, please refer to the PRM)
- Support for VLAN in VLAN encapsulation (For further information, please refer to the PRM)
- CQ creation offload by software
- Support for rst2rts command
- Invalidates a TLV during the firmware boot stage
- A new counter for the diag_rprt PRM command to count packet drops due to no-receive buffer
- Support for Ethernet TX lifetime cycle control (Head of Queue)
- A new register (PPLR) that allows egress and external loopback control (For further information, please refer to the PRM)
- A watchdog mechanism to track ingress traffic stalls to prevent flooding the network with Flow Control packets
- Inspur LED scheme: A new LED scheme controlled by the INI which causes constant traffic LED indication even without traffic.

Bug Fixes:

- Prevented a Virtual Function from injecting pause frames into the network.
- Fixed a default hardware configuration issue which caused RDP over IPv4 traffic to be dropped.
- MLNX_OEM command GET_TEMP returned a wrong value in the max_temp field.
- Fixed an issue which caused TX traffic to stop when the message MTU size was larger than QP.mtu.
- Fixed an issue which caused NVCONFIG to fail when the number of sector was set to 1 and the sector was zeroed.
- Fixed a race in handling a duplicated “read request from middle”.
- Fixed an issue which caused lack of IB traffic on SR-IOV VPI.
- Fixed an issue which caused NVRAM to get stuck when it filled non-valid information in TLV.
- Fixed an issue which caused an internal firmware error when APM changed the QPs port mapping.
- Fixed an issue which caused a firmware internal error when handling QP alternative context.
- Fixed an issue which caused packet transmission to get stuck when the software tried to send pause frames with dmac equal to one of the device's MAC addresses.
- Wrong temperature reporting when server is in Auxiliary mode after Moonshot AC power cycle.

About Network Adapter:

When connected, the operating system usually installs a generic driver that helps the computer to recognize the newly attached device.

However, proper software must be applied if you want to make use of all features that the network adapter has available. This task also allows computers to properly recognize all device characteristics such as manufacturer, chipset, technology, and others.

Updating the adapter’s drivers and utilities version might improve overall performance and stability, increase transfer speeds, fix different compatibility problems and several network-related errors, as well as bring various other changes.

To install this release, simply get the package, extract it if necessary, run the setup, and follow the instructions displayed on-screen. When done, don’t forget to perform a system restart and reconnect the network adapter to make sure that all changes take effect properly.

Without further ado, if you intend to apply this version, click the download button and install the package. Moreover, check with our website as often as possible so that you don’t miss a single new release.

  It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.

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