Chapter XVI. Offload Multi-Adapter Failover (MAFO)
Introduction
Chelsio's adapters offer a complete suite of high reliability features, including adapter-to-adapter
failover. The patented offload Multi-Adapter Failover (MAFO) feature ensures all offloaded traffic
continue operating seamless in the face of port failure.
MAFO allows aggregating network interfaces across multiple adapters into a single logical bonded
interface, providing effective fault tolerance.
The traffic running over the bonded interface can be fully offloaded to the adapter, thus freeing
the CPU from TCP/IP overhead.
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Portions of this software are covered under US Patent,
Important
migration for full-offload network interface devices: US 8346919 B1
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Use of the covered technology is strictly limited to Chelsio ASIC-based
soutions.
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Hardware Requirements
Supported Adapters
The following are the currently shipping Chelsio adapters that are compatible with the Offload
Multi-Adapter Failover driver.
T62100-CR
T62100-LP-CR
T6425-CR
T6225-CR
T6225-LL-CR
T580-CR
T580-LP-CR
T540-CR
T540-BT
T520-CR
T520-LL-CR
T520-BT
T420-CR
T440-CR
T422-CR
T420-SO-CR
T404-BT
T420-BCH
T440-LP-CR
T420-BT
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