SMC Networks SMC10GPCIe-XFP manual Advanced Features

Advanced Features

•IP/UDP/TCP Checksum Offload – Calculation and validation for the checksums found in IP, TCP and UDP headers. This feature saves a significant amount of valuable CPU cycles.

•Transmit Rate Pacing (per queue) – Provides a mechanism for enforcing bandwidth quotas across all guest operating systems. Software re-programmable on-the-fly to allow for adjustment as congestion increases on the network.

•Jumbo Frame Rate (9K) – Smaller per packet overhead, increased network utilization.

•MSI and MSI-X– Both MSI and MSI-X support enable higher levels of performance on both legacy and up-to-date systems.

•Remote Boot – Support for Etherboot, PXE boot, and Linux® BIOS provides flexibility in cluster design and diskless servers. A small programmable on-board ROM contains the boot code that provides this functionality.

•IP Flow Filtering – Enables the hardware to steer packets based on IP, TCP, and UDP header contents.

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