Section 2: Functionality And Features; Functional Description; Features - Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57 Series User Manual

NetXtreme User Guide
S e c t i o n 2 : F u n c t i o n a l i t y a n d F e a t u r e s
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Functional Description

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Features

• Supported Operating Environments
• Network Link and Activity Indication
Functional Description
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapters connect a PCI Express™ compliant system to a Gigabit
Ethernet network. Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapters incorporate a technology that transfers data
at a maximum rate of 1 gigabit per second—10 times the rate of Fast Ethernet adapters.
Using the Broadcom teaming software, you can split your network into virtual LANs (VLANs) as well as group
multiple network adapters together into teams to provide network load balancing and fault tolerance
functionality. See Teaming
teaming. See Virtual LANs
teaming and creating VLANs on Windows operating systems.
Features
The following is a list of the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter features for all supported operating
systems:
• Integrated quad 10/100/1000BASE-T and quad 1000BASE-X/SGMII 1.25 Gbaud SerDes transceivers
• Energy Efficient Ethernet™ compliant with IEEE Std 802.3az-2010
• IEEE 802.3ap Clause 73 auto-negotiation
• Quad 10/100/1000BASE-T full-duplex/half-duplex MACs
• Quad 1000BASE-X/SGMII full-duplex/half-duplex MACs
• Automatic MDI crossover
• x2 PCI Express v2.0 at 5 GT/s or 2.5 GT/s
• MSI and MSI-X capabilities—up to 17 MSIX vectors
• I/O Virtualization support for VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ
• 17 receive queues and 16 transmit queues
• 17 MSI-X vectors supporting per queue interrupt to host
• Flexible MSI-X vector to transmit/receive queue association
• Function Level Reset
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS) with per queue MSI-X vector support and support for UDP RSS hash type
• Transmit Side Scaling (TSS) and multi-Tx queue with per queue MSI-X vector support
• Jumbo frame support for up to 9000-byte payload
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and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Teaming Services
for a description of VLANs. See
for detailed information about
Configuring Teaming for instructions on configuring
Functionality and Features
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