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PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide 36
9 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
9.1 Overview
Two embedded Broadcom 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 planar
as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. Features of the LAN devices include:
• x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface
• Integrated MAC and PHY
• 3072x18 Byte context memory
• 64 KB receive buffer
• TOE (TCP Offload Engine)
• iSCSI controller (enabled as standard)
• NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for manageability
• Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
• PXE 2.0 remote boot
• iSCSI boot
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• Bare-metal deployment support