Functionality and Features: Broadcom NetXtreme II® Network Adapter User Guide
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PCI Express 1.0a x4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
PCI Express Gen2 x8 (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
Full fast-path TCP offload
Zero copy capable hardware
Other performance features
TCP, IP, UDP checksum
TCP segmentation
Adaptive interrupts
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
Manageability
Broadcom Advanced Control Suite diagnostic and configuration software suite
Supports PXE 2.0 specification (Linux Red Hat PXE Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windows Server 2008,
Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Intel APITEST, DOS UNDI)
Wake on LAN support
Universal Management Port (UMP) support
Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (IEEE Std 802.3z, Clause 30)
SMBus controller
ACPI 1.1a compliant (multiple power modes)
IPMI support
Advanced network features
Jumbo frames (up to 9 KB). The OS and the link partner must support jumbo frames.
Virtual LANs
IEEE Std 802.3ad Teaming
Smart Load Balancing Teaming
Smart Load Balancing TOE Teaming (with the correct configuration)
Flow Control (IEEE Std 802.3x)
LiveLink™ (supported in both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems)
Logical Link Control (IEEE Std 802.2)
Layer-2 Priority Encoding (IEEE Std 802.1p)
High-speed on-chip RISC processor
Up to 4 classes of service (CoS)
Up to 4 send rings and receive rings
Integrated 96 KB frame buffer memory
Quality of Service (QoS)
GMII/MII Management Interface
Four unique MAC unicast addresses
Support for multicast addresses via 128 bits hashing hardware function
Serial flash NVRAM memory
JTAG support
PCI Power Management Interface (v1.1)
64-bit BAR support
EM64T processor support
1.2 V core voltage, 0.13 µm process
iSCSI Boot support
Virtualization
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