NetXtreme II User Guide
January 2010
Broadcom Corporation
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FEATURES
The following is a list of the Broadcom NetXtreme II adapter features:
TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
Internet Small Computer Systems In terface (iSCSI) offload
Single-chip solution
Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T transceivers
Integrated 10GBASE-T transceivers
10/100/1000 triple-speed MAC
Host interfaces
SerDes interface for optical transceiver connection
PCI Express 1.0a x4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
PCI Express Gen2 x8 (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
Full fast-path TCP offload
Zero copy capable hardware
Other performance features
TCP, IP, UDP checksum
TCP segmentation
Adaptive interrupts
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
Manageability
Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 diagnostic and configuration software suite
Supports PXE 2.0 specification (Linux Red Hat PXE Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windows 2000 Server,
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Intel APITEST, DOS UNDI)
Wake on LAN support
Universal Management Port (UMP) support
Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (IEEE Std 802.3z, Clause 30)
SMBus controller
ACPI 1.1a compliant (multiple power modes)
IPMI support
Advanced network features
Jumbo frames (up to 9 KB). The OS and the link partner must support jumbo frames.
Virtual LANs
IEEE Std 802.3ad Teaming
Smart Load Balancing Teaming
Smart Load Balancing TOE Teaming (with the correct configuration)
Flow Control (IEEE Std 802.3x)
LiveLink™ (supported in both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems)
Logical Link Control (IEEE Std 802.2)
Layer-2 Priority Encoding (IEEE Std 802.1p)
High-speed on-chip RISC processor
Up to 4 classes of service (CoS)
Up to 4 send rings and receive rings