lnxfwupg utility to disable asf on broadcom nics.

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

The utility is available in some firmware update packages available from support.dell.com.

Example:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/NETW_FRMW_LX_R197250.BIN

To Extract the content of the update package:

./NETW_FRMW_LX_R197250.BIN --extract NETW_FRMW_LX_R197250
Successfully extracted to NETW_FRMW_LX_R197250

cd NETW_FRMW_LX_R197250

ls 

bcmfwdetails.cfg     dup_prg        

lnxfwupg     

PIEConfig.sh    sphelp.txt         svmExeMsg.xsl
build_variables.txt  en.prop        mc.txt       PIEInfo.txt     spsetup.sh         uni-eol.txt
buildVer.sh          getSystemId    package.xml  smbiosHelp.txt  sputility.bin      Version.txt
dup_inv              libbmapi.so.6  payload      spconfig.xml    spUtilityHelp.txt



--
Harald Jensås


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Matthew Schumacher
Sent: Fri 2008-11-14 19:35
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: lnxfwupg utility to disable asf on broadcom nics.
 
Anyone know where I can download this utility?  I want to be able to see
VLANS with tcpdump but found a few web pages that say that ASF enabled
in the firmware will cook the data such that I can't see the vlan tags.

schu

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