Introduction; Hardware Requirements; Software Requirements - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter XVIII. Offload IPv6

Introduction

The growth of the Internet has created a need for more addresses than are possible with IPv4.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a version of the Internet Protocol (IP) designed to succeed
the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4).
Chelsio's Offload IPv6 feature provides support to fully offload IPv6 traffic to the Unified Wire
adapter.
1.1.

Hardware Requirements

Supported Adapters
The following are the currently shipping Chelsio adapters that are compatible with Chelsio Offload
IPv6 feature:
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
T420-LL-CR
T420-CX
1.2.

Software Requirements

Linux Requirements
Currently the Offload IPv6 feature is available for the following versions:
Chelsio Unified Wire for Linux 259