174 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual
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Fabric Adapters
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Supported Ethernet protocols and
features
• 803.3ae (10 Gbps Ethernet)
• 802.1q (VLAN)
• 802.1q (tagging)
• 802.1P (tagging)
• 802.1Qaz (enhanced transmission selection)
• 802.1Qbb (priority flow control)
• 802.1AB (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
• 802.3ad (link aggregation)
• 802.1p (priority encoding)
• 802.3x (Ethernet flow control)
• 802.3ap - KX/KX4 (auto negotiation)
• 802.3ak - CX4
• PXE (Pre-Boot Execution Environment)
• UNDI (Universal Network Device Interface)
• NDIS (Network Data Interface Specification)
6.2
• Dell iSCSI DCB
• EEE 1149.1 (JTAG) for manufacturing debug
and diagnostics.
• IP/TCP/UDP Checksum Offload
• IPv4 Specification (RFC 791)
• IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460)
• TCP/UDP Specification (RFC 793/768)
• ARP Specification (RFC 826)
• Data Center Bridging (DCB) Capability
• DCB Exchange Protocol (DCBXP) 1.0 and 1.1
• RSS with support for IPV4TCP, IPV4, IPV6TCP,
IPV6 hash types
• Syslog
• SRIOV
• Jumbo frames
• Interrupt coalescing
• Interrupt moderation
• Multiple transmit priority queues
• Network Priority
• Large and small receive buffers
• TCP Large Segment Offload
• Unicast MAC address
• MAC filtering
• Multicast MAC addresses
• Multiple transmit queues for Windows and
Linux
• SNMP (Windows and Linux)
• Team VM queues
• VLAN Discovery using proprietary logic
• VLAN discovery for untagged/priority-tagged
FIP frames
• VLAN filtering
• VMware NetIOC
• VMware NetQueues v3 (VMware 4.1 and
later)
• VMware multiple priority levels
TABLE 13 Fabric Adapter hardware specifications (continued)
Feature Description
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