NetXtreme II User Guide
January 2010
Broadcom Corporation
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FEATURES
The following is a list of the Broadcom NetXtreme II adapter features:
• TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
• Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) offload
• Single-chip solution
• Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T transceivers
• Integrated 10GBASE-T transceivers
• 10/100/1000 triple-speed MAC
• Host interfaces
• SerDes interface for optical transceiver connection
• 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 3 diagnostic and configuration software suite
• Supports PXE 2.0 specification (Linux Red Hat PXE Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windows 2000 Server,
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, 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
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