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Advanced Software Features
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
Teaming support
IEEE 802.3ad
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(link aggregation
control protocol)
PCIe Hot Plug/Active Peripheral
Component Interconnect (PCI)
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.3 2005 flow control support
Tx/Rx IP, TCP, & UDP checksum offloading
(IPv4, IPv6) capabilities (Transmission control
protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP),
Internet Protocol (IP))
IEEE 802.1p
TCP segmentation/large send offload
MSI -X supports Multiple Independent Queues
Interrupt moderation
IPv6 offloading
Checksum and segmentation capability
extended to new standard packet type
Technical Features
Data rate(s) supported per port
1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit
Bus type
PCI Express 2.0 (5.0 Gtps)
Bus width
x8 lane PCI Express, operable in x8 and
x16 slots
Bus speed (x8, encoded rate)
20 Gbps uni-directional; 40 Gbps
bi-directional
Interrupt levels
INTA, MSI, MSI-X
Hardware certifications
FCC B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KCC
Controller-processor
Intel® 82599EB