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Table of Contents NetXtreme-E User’s Manual
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Table of Contents
Regulatory and Safety Approvals ............................................................................................................... 7
Regulatory ............................................................................................................................................... 7
Safety ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)...................................................................................................... 8
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Compliance............................................................................................. 8
FCC Statement........................................................................................................................................ 8
Functional Description ................................................................................................................................. 9
Network Link and Activity Indication ........................................................................................................ 14
BCM957402AXXXX/BCM957412AXXXX ............................................................................................. 14
BCM957404AXXXX/BCM957414AXXXX ............................................................................................. 15
BCM957406AXXXX/BCM957416AXXXX ............................................................................................. 16
BCM957414M4140D............................................................................................................................. 17
BCM957412M4120D............................................................................................................................. 18
BCM957416M4160 ............................................................................................................................... 19
Features ....................................................................................................................................................... 20
Software and Hardware Features ......................................................................................................... 20
Virtualization Features........................................................................................................................... 21
VXLAN................................................................................................................................................... 22
NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve .............................................................................................................. 22
Stateless Offloads ................................................................................................................................. 22
RSS................................................................................................................................................ 22
TPA ................................................................................................................................................ 22
Header-Payload Split ..................................................................................................................... 22
UDP Fragmentation Offload .................................................................................................................. 22
Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload....................................................................................................... 23
Multiqueue Support for OS.................................................................................................................... 23
NDIS VMQ ..................................................................................................................................... 23
VMWare NetQueue........................................................................................................................ 23
KVM/Xen Multiqueue ..................................................................................................................... 23
SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix ................................................................................................... 23
SR-IOV .................................................................................................................................................. 24
Network Partitioning (NPAR)................................................................................................................. 24
RDMA over Converge Ethernet – RoCE ............................................................................................... 24
Supported Combinations....................................................................................................................... 25
NPAR, SR-IOV, and RoCE ............................................................................................................ 25
NPAR, SR-IOV, and DPDK............................................................................................................ 25
Unsupported Combinations............................................................................................................ 25