14 Brocade 2-Port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter for IBM BladeCenter Installation and User’s Guide
Features, specifications, and standards
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Topology 10 Gbps CEE
Supported Ethernet
protocols and
features
• 803.3ae (10 Gbps Ethernet)
• 802.1q (VLAN)
• 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)
• 802.3ak (CX4)
• EEE 1149.1 (JTAG) for manufacturing debug and diagnostics.
• IPv4 Specification (RFC 791)
• IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460)
• TCP/UDP Specification (RFC 793/768)
• ARP Specification (RFC 826)
• DCB Capability Exchange Protocol 802.1 (DCBCXP)
• DCBX protocol 1.0 and 1.1
• RSS with support for IPV4TCP, IPV4, IPV6TCP, IPV6 hash types
• HDS (header-data split)
• Syslog
• Jumbo frames
• Interrupt coalescing
• Interrupt moderation
• Network Priority
• VLAN Discovery using proprietary logic
• VLAN discovery for untagged/priority-tagged FIP frames
• LKA (Link Keep Alive) protocol
Supported FCoE
protocols and
features
• preFIP, FIP 1.03, and FIP 2.0 (FC-BB5 rev. 2 compliant)
• FIP discovery protocol for dynamic FCF discovery and FCoE link
management.
• FPMA and SPMA type FIP fabric login.
• FCP3 - initiator mode only
• FC-SP authentication
• SCSI SBC-3
• NPIV
• IP-over-FC
• Target rate limiting
• Boot Over SAN
• Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery
• Persistent binding
• I/O interrupt coalescing and moderation
Other features
• ASIC Flip-flops Parity Protected
• T10 Data CRC
• ECC Memory Parity Protected
TABLE 2 Additional adapter specifications
Feature Description
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