Chapter 1: Overview
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Virtualization Features
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PCI-SIG SR-IOV support
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VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)
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Flexible Port Partitioning
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IEEE 802.1q VLAN support
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IEEE 802.1q advanced packet filtering
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Jumbo Frames support
Performance Features
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TCP/UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 checksum offloads to improve CPU usage
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Low Latency Interrupts
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Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6) increases throughput and lowers
processor usage
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Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows environment, Scalable I/O for Linux
environments
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Intelligent interrupt generation
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TCP segmentation/large send offload
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Interrupt moderation
OS Support
The AOC-MGP-i2/i4 add-on card supports the following operating systems:
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Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 (x64 Edition)
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Windows 8.1, 8, 7 (x64 Edition)
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RedHat Linux
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SUSE Linux
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FreeBSD