3Com manual 3CR990-FX-97 NIC Features, Introduction, Supported NIC Feature Description

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3CR990-FX-97 NIC Features

The 3CR990-FX-97 NIC and accompanying software provide features that relieve network congestion and ensure high performance and maximum bandwidth availability.

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3C R990-FX-97

The 3CR990-FX-97 NIC provides these features for supported IP and IPX environments:

Supported NIC Feature	Description
Support for Offload Features	Offloads key TCP/IP networking and security tasks from the Windows 2000 and
	Windows XP operating systems.
Remote Wake-Up	Lets you power on a computer remotely for after-hours administration.
Integrated Boot ROM with Managed PC Boot	Adds management capabilities by enabling the computer to boot from a network
Agent (MBA)	server, rather than from its local drive. MBA is compliant with the Preboot Execution
	Environment (PXE) specification.
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) 2.0	Enables managed computers and net computers to report details about themselves and
	their peripheral devices across the network to a DMI 2.0-compliant management
	application.
Keep-Alive	Prevents the computer workstation address from being aged-out of switch router tables.
Hot Plug NIC Installation	Lets you add a new NIC or remove and replace a NIC without turning off power to the
	computer.
Flow Control Features	Prevents the loss of packets by keeping the input buffers of a device from overflowing.
Offline Diagnostics	Provides offline diagnostics programs for configuring, testing, and troubleshooting NICs.

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