Version:234.1.124.0.00(2025/12/31)
Upgrade recommendations
Upgrade the firmware, as a best practice.
Problems Solved
1.Fixed the issue of Niccli recovery failure after resetting from damaged firmware (DCSG-41552);
2.Fixed communication issue after firmware update when enabling software untag VLAN (DCSG-41528);
3.Fixed the issue where the PLDM firmware update did not display the image to be updated when the versions of the active and pending images were the same (DCSG-40211);
4.Fixed the issue where the latest PLDM time could not be sent to BMC (DCSG-37593);
5.Fixed an issue where sending PCIe VDM MCTP messages too early could cause the system to hang (DCSG-18324);
6.Fixed the GPIO multiplexing value of OCP Chain pins so that they can be mapped and correctly used for temperature warnings (DCSG-31638);
7.Fixed the fastboot recovery issue where fastboot recovery (DCSG-30725) is not allowed when lockdown is enabled;
8.Fixed the issue where the temperature of the transceiver read from eeprom was good, but the is_tempnvalid flag indicated that it was invalid (DCSG-29165);
9.Fixed LLDP forwarding issue, now always forwarding LLDP packets to BMC (DCSG-29361);
10.Fixed the issue of not being able to obtain DHCP IP in VM (DCSG-13760);
11.If DCBX is enabled on the NCSI path, LLDP disable request (DCSG-3220) is rejected.
12.Whp: Mgmt:To prevent firmware crashes due to a full FIFO (First In, First Out) buffer, using a microsecond timer to adjust timeout calculations can be employed (DCSG-01769683).
13.The task of periodically updating the heartbeat will be delegated to other processes to prevent firmware crashes.
New Functions
1.Add support for sending traffic with the same destination MAC address with or without VLAN tagging (DCSG-17231);
2.Added the function of mirroring traffic on port (RoCE+L2) to the RoCE interface (DCSG-10816);
3.Added support for enabling/disabling CQ overflow detection (DCSG-9084);
4.Add support for dbd_cfg parameter (DCSG-15689).
Upgrade recommendations
Upgrade the firmware, as a best practice.
Problems Solved
1.All packets not matching the ntuple was being dropped (DCSG01664630).
2.FEC counter get issue fix - FW crash while trying to run RoCE hammer on SRIOV VF To run RDMA traffic with multiple ib instances on the VM using the hammer script (DCSG01684380).
3.Application may fail to terminate properly due to maximum retransmissions (DCSG01678522).
4.ethtool -m to check module info is failing on hosts 2,3 and 4 with port breakout (DCSG01686458).
5.Parent PF and VFS are still receiving all-mcast data when VF interface with default vlan is brought down (DCSG01693223).
6.Fix TRP_UPDATE_INACTIVE fatal interrupt issue (DCSG01687265).
7.Crash loop when booting into vaux when lldp/dcbx are enabled (DCSG01702613).
8.RoCE traffic fails randomly with older driver (DCSG01694707).
Use Older ESXi driver with latest firmware.
9.Server crashes on VM delete (DCSG01689222).
Firmware assert is happening while deleting and re-creating the VM's
10.RoCE traffic was being dropped due to discards (DCSG01731818).
11.Running out of multicast resources with high number of VF's (DCSG01743357).
12."error 65534:0:00000000:0000" on flow creation after running rss hash-key flow create command (DCSG01736621).
13.Out of resource error when running roce test (DCSG01752647).
14.Host reboots upon detecting PCIe error (DCSG01766369).
15.Avoid firmware crash for invalid DCBX configuration (DCSG01773046).
16.'hwrm req_type 0x3a' mesages observed when unloading RoCE driver on Wh+ (DCSG01665809).
17.WH+: NIC drop during warm reboot test on few platforms (DCSG01729324)
18.Server boot time is too high with multiple adapters (DCSG01709336).
New Functions
1.Reject LLDP Disable request if DCBX is enabled (DCSG01687210).
2.Core Firmware: Change Default Congestion Control from DCQCN-P to DCQCN-D (DCSG01659194).
3.Increase resource to handle the NC-SI commands concurrently (DCSG01539845).
4.Allow SMBUS #1 to enqueue MCTP pkts on RX processing queue (DCSG01705453).
5.Enhancement of module failure detection (DCSG01702165).
6.Support a minimum bandwidth rate limiter per PF (DCSG01687212).
7.NIC returns provisioned BMC MAC address of channel 0 (DCSG01730202).
8.[Wh+] Deliver LLDP packet to BMC through NC-SI over MCTP over SMBus or PCIe (DCSG01684535).
9.Added functionality to report loopback statistics (DCSG01709535).
10.Wh+: Support to enable/disable Power On Ethernet through the NIC (DCSG01685910).
11.Enable inline authentication of firmware during firmware update process (DCSG01716979).
12.Always send the last received LLDP frame on reception of every NCSI OEM Receive Ethernet Frame comman (DCSG01751397).
13.Prohibit FEC mode options when Auto-Neg and Media-Auto-Detect are enabled.
Upgrade recommendations
Upgrade the firmware, as a best practice.
Problems Solved
1.UEFI driver is modified to not read the NVM contents for FMP GetImageInfo functionality and hence avoiding the un necessary calls to NVM (DCSG01545904).
2.Fixed the RoCE traffic failure when MTU change (DCSG01494948).
3.Firmware will now first check type of the mctp payload.If payload of type mctp control message, then Eid validation will be alleviated (DCSG01507302).
4.Resolved the issue where sudden power-off of BMC occasionally caused network interface card (NIC) port link to be abnormally interrupted and unable to establish a Link Up.
New Functions
1.Added new field in port stats for RS FEC symbol error (DCSG01484026).
2.Added firmware support for dual rate modules that supports auto rate sense (DCSG01475831).
3.Added support for PLDM to accept more than one management address parameter for patch to its LLDP Transmit fields (DCSG01483141).
4.Add support for RSS CAM to enhance RSS functionality (DCSG01361734).
Upgrade recommendations
Upgrade the firmware, as a best practice.
Problems Solved
1.In N425G DC cycle test, BIOS boot time is more than 10 minutescaused by N425G (DCSG01435828).
2.Redo the PM Probe if PM in bad state (DCSG01496962).
3.Delete the hotkey to enter the interface of the network card OptionRom configuration item under Legacy BIOS, and no longer support the configuration of network card under Legacy BIOS.
New Functions
1.RDMA to support 64k pagesize (DCSG01487008).
2.Added NVM option total_host_port_control and Link Control Policy support in bnxtnvm (DCSG01486920).
3.Added 1000BASE-LX support.
Upgrade recommendations
Upgrade the firmware, as a best practice.
Problems Solved
1.Fixed the issue where IPv6 CNP packets may be marked as RoCE priority (DCSG01174544).
2.Observed call traces when running RoCE IO with 64k QPs and performing link or PFC switching on the switch (DCSG01172607).
3.Fixed the issue of delayed loading of UEFI HII configuration causing Advanced page freeze on some platforms (introduced in version 220).
New Functions
1. SMBus ARP support is enabled by default.
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