Download Packages for the Broadcom NX and NXE Network Adapters for Poweredge Servers

Background

Dell currently offers two families of Broadcom products for Poweredge servers.

• NetXtreme. Controllers in the NetXtreme family are BCM5719 and BCM5720. The NetXtreme family can be easily summarized as 1Gbps Ethernet adapters. This family is also commonly referred to as NX, or NX1, for brevity.
• NetXtreme E-Series. Controllers in the NetXtreme E-Series family are BCM57402, BCM57404, BCM57406, BCM57412, BCM57414, and BCM57416. The NetXtreme E-Series family can be easily summarized as 10Gbps and 25Gbps Ethernet adapters. These adapters are commonly known as the NXE family for brevity.
   

Each of the two families has its own driver and firmware packages. NXE drivers and firmware do not work on NX1 controllers and vice versa.

For Network Daughter Cards (NDC) that mix NX/NXE families (ex. BCM57412/BCM5720 10G SFP/1G BT Quad Port rNDC and BCM57416/BCM5720 10G BT/1G BT Quad Port rNDC) each comprise both a NXE controller and a NX1 controller.  Therefore, these adapters call for the installation of both the NXE drivers and firmware and the NX1 drivers and firmware.

 

Current Software Packages:

This software bundle provides NX1 drivers for 64-bit Windows. Not providing drivers for 10Gbps NXE controllers is expected behavior:
8V5P1 - SWB,DRVR,NTWK,BCOM,W64,20.6

This software bundle provides NXE firmware, plus internal device configuration updates that are needed to allow NXE adapters with SFP ports to perform link speed auto-detection. Not providing firmware for NX1 controllers is expected behaviour. It is also expected behavior that, when executed within an operating system, the firmware DUP provided in this software bundle will not recognize NXE controllers until a suitable device driver is installed and operational.
FV08V - SWB,FW,NTWK,BCME,20.6

The Drivers and Downloads section of the Dell website is currently limited to showing a single package per applicable device. For any given platform, the site will show either our NX1 software bundles, or our NXE software bundles, but probably not both.

This web promotion logic is expected to be resolved in the January 2018 time frame.  For this reason, direct links to the current drivers and firmware are provided below:

•  NetXtreme E-Series (NXE family)

64-bit Windows Drivers: https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04446587M/1/Network_Driver_DXMPF_WN64_20.6.5.6_20.06.05.06.EXE
Regular firmware update: https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04444493M/1/Network_Firmware_YK7GY_WN64_20.06.05.06.EXE
Firmware + configuration update: https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04494334M/1/Network_Firmware_FV08V_20.06.05.06.zip

• NetXtreme (NX family)

64-bit Windows Drivers: https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04444501M/1/Network_Driver_8V5P1_WN64_20.6.0_20.06.05.06.EXE
Firmware update: https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04444506M/1/Network_Firmware_1T8HX_WN64_20.6.18.EXE