Embedded Lan On Motherboard - Dell PowerEdge M710 Technical Manual

10 Embedded LAN on Motherboard

The PowerEdge™ M710 supports four embedded Broadcom 5709S dual-port LAN controllers as
independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The following information details the features of the
LAN devices.
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x4 PCIe Gen2 capable interface
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Controller operated at Gen1 speed
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Integrated MAC and PHY
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3072x18 Byte context memory
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64 KB receive buffer
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TOE (TCP Offload Engine)
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RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled post-RTS through an optional hardware key)
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NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for manageability
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Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
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PXE 2.0 remote boot
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iSCSI boot
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IPv4 and IPv6 support
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Bare metal deployment support
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ISCSI offload Accelerator - Used for offloading ISCSI traffic as an ISCSI accelerator/HBA –
Optionally enabled through a hardware key
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