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16 Transmit and Receive queues per port |
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Up to 16 queues of Receive Side Scaling (RSS) minimize CPU utilization across multiple processor systems |
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Support for 8 pools of virtual machine Device Queues (VMDq) per port |
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Support Direct Cache Access (DCA) |
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Support Intel I/O AT 2.0 |
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TSO interleaving for reduced latency |
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Minimized device I/O interrupts using MSI and MSI-X |
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Offload of TCP / IP / UDP checksum calculation and TCP segmentation |
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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload |
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Packet interrupt coalescing timers (packet timers) and absolute- delay interrupt timers for both transmit and receive operation |
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SFP Gigabit Ethernet |
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Gigabit Ethernet Adapters with SFP cage support |
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1000Base-LX Fiber Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-LX SFP transceiver |
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1000Base-SX Fiber Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-SX SFP transceiver |
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1000Base-T (1000Mbit/s) Copper Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-T SFP transceiver |
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Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) Cage for SFP LC connectors |
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• 2PortLink synchronization |
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• Optional SGMII mode (future support) |
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Common Key features |
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PCI-Express Base Specification Revision 1.1 (2.5Gbps) to the upstream on board switch |
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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82576 Dual integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers |
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Ultra deep, packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization |
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Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The Controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation |
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Server class reliability, availability and performance features |
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• Link Aggregation and Load Balancing |
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• Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC) |
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• Switch and NIC Independent |
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• Failover |
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Priority queuing – 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding |
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Virtual LANs –802.1q VLAN tagging |
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Jumbo Frame (9.5KB) |
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802.x flow control |
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PCI-SIG SR IOV (8 VF) |
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Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication |
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Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (802.3z, Clause 30) |
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Supports Vital Product Data (VPD) |
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Integrated LinkSec security engines |
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Supports IEEE 1588 |
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LEDs indicators for link/Activity Mode status |
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