Qlogic FastLinQ 3400 Series, User Manual

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1–Product Overview
Features
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Using the QLogic teaming software, you can split your network into virtual LANs
(VLANs) and group multiple network adapters together into teams to provide
network load balancing and fault tolerance. See
Chapter 15, QLogic Teaming
Services and Chapter 16, Configuring Teaming in Windows Server for detailed
information about teaming. See Chapter 11, Virtual LANs in Windows for a
description of VLANs. See “Configuring Teaming” on page 185 for instructions on
configuring teaming and creating VLANs on Windows operating systems.
Features
The following is a list of the QLogic 8400/3400 Series adapters features. Some
features may not be available on all adapters.
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iSCSI offload
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FCoE offload
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NIC partitioning (NPAR)
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Data center bridging (DCB)

Enhanced transmission selection (ETS; IEEE 802.1Qaz)

Priority-based flow control (PFC; IEEE 802.1Qbb)

Data center bridging capability exchange protocol (DCBX; CEE
version 1.01)

Single-chip solution (excluding QLE3442-RJ)

10/100/1000G triple-speed MAC (QLE3442-RJ)

1G/10G triple-speed MAC

SerDes interface for optical transceiver connection

PCIe
®
Gen3 x8 (10GE)

Zero copy capable hardware

Other offload performance features

TCP, IP, user datagram protocol (UDP) checksum

TCP segmentation

Adaptive interrupts

Receive side scaling (RSS)