Dell
PowerEdge M710HD Technical Guide
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Embedded LAN on Motherboard
10.1
Overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M710HD supports the following network daughtercards:
4 x 1GbE Dual Broadcom
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BCM5709S
2 x 10GbE Broadcom BCM57712-k
10.2
Broadcom BCM5709S
The BCM5709S provides a complete single-chip dual-port Gigabit Ethernet network controller with
TCP Offload Engine (TOE) and iSCSI Offload Engine (iSOE) support is available on the M710HD. The
M710HD has two embedded Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port LAN on motherboard (LOM) controllers as
independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The BCM5709S features include:
x4 PCIe Gen2 host interfaces
Integrated dual-port Layer 4 and Layer 5 solution (TCP/IP, RDMA, and iSCSI)
Integrated IEEE 802.3-compliant media access control (MAC)
3072x18 byte context memory
64 KB receive buffer
TOE (licensed by default)
iSCSI offload controller (licensed by default)
NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for Flex Addressing
Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
PXE 2.0 remote boot
iSCSI boot
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Bare metal deployment support
10.3
Broadcom BCM57712-k NDC
The Broadcom BCM57712-k NDC powers the Broadcom dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet network
controller with TOE, iSCSI, and FCoE. The BCM57712-k features include:
x8 PCIe Gen2 host interface
Broadcom BCM8073 KR PHY for 10GbE and GbE connectivity
TOE
iSCSI offload controller
FCoE offload
NIC partitioning
DCB support
NC-SI connection for Flex Addressing
WOL
PXE 2.1 remote boot
iSCSI boot
FCoE boot
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Bare metal deployment support
Optional PCI partitioning providing 8 PFs
SR-IOV
Energy-efficient Ethernet support