Dell
PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide 37
10 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 system board has two embedded dual-port Broadcom
®
5709C Gigabit
Ethernet controllers as independent Ethernet interface devices. This provides four LOM ports for the
server. Both controllers enabled for TCP Offload Engine (TOE), with optional iSCSI offload engine
(iSOE).
The following information details the features of the LAN device:
x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface (controllers operated at Gen1 speed)
Integrated MAC and PHY
3072x18 byte context memory
64 KB receive buffer
TOE (TCP Offload Engine)
iSCSI controller (enabled through an optional hardware key)
RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled through an optional hardware key)
NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection
Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
PXE 2.0 remote boot
iSCSI boot
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Bare-metal deployment support