Performance Features:
|
16 Transmit and Receive queues per port
|
•
|
Up to 16 queues of Receive Side Scaling (RSS) minimize CPU utilization across multiple processor systems
|
•
|
Support for 8 pools of virtual machine Device Queues ( VMDq) per port
|
•
|
Support Direct Cache Access ( DCA)
|
•
|
Support Intel I/O AT 2.0
|
•
|
TSO interleaving for reduced latency
|
•
|
UDP TSO
|
•
|
Minimized device I/O interrupts using MSI and MSI-X
|
•
|
Offload of TCP / IP / UDP checksum calculation and TCP segmentation
|
•
|
SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload
|
•
|
Packet interrupt coalescing timers (packet timers) and absolute- delay interrupt timers for both transmit and receive peration
|
•
|
|
|
Copper Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-T:
|
Independently copper Gigabit Ethernet channels support Single Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T), Fast Ethernet (100Base-Tx) and Ethernet (10Base-T)
|
•
|
Triple speed 1000Mbps (1000Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx) and 10 Mbps (100Base-T) operation
|
•
|
Nway auto negotiation automatic sensing and switching between 1Gbps full duplex and 100 / 10 Mbps operations Simplex or Full Duplex
|
•
|
RJ-45 female connectors
|
•
|
|
|
Common Key Features:
|
Host Interface standard support PCI-Express Base Specification Revision 1.1.
|
•
|
High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82576 Dual integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers
|
•
|
Ultra deep packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization
|
•
|
Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation
|
•
|
Server class reliability, availability and performance features:
|
•
|
Link Aggregation and Load Balancing:
|
•
|
• Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC)
|
|
• Switch and NIC Independent
|
|
• Failover
|
|
Priority queuing – 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding
|
•
|
Virtual LANs –802.1q VLAN tagging
|
•
|
Jumbo Frame (9.5KB)
|
•
|
802.x flow control
|
•
|
PCI-SIG SR IOV (8 VF)
|
•
|
Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication
|
•
|
Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (802.3z, Clause 30)
|
•
|
Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)
|
•
|
Integrated LinkSec security engines
|
•
|
Supports IEEE 1588
|
•
|
LEDs indicators for link/Activity/Speed status
|
|