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NetXtreme-E User's Manual

Regulatory and Safety Approvals ............................................................................................................... 7

Regulatory ............................................................................................................................................... 7

Safety ...................................................................................................................................................... 7

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)...................................................................................................... 8

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Compliance............................................................................................. 8

FCC Statement........................................................................................................................................ 8

Functional Description................................................................................................................................. 9

Network Link and Activity Indication........................................................................................................ 14

BCM957402AXXXX/BCM957412AXXXX ............................................................................................. 14

BCM957404AXXXX/BCM957414AXXXX ............................................................................................. 15

BCM957406AXXXX/BCM957416AXXXX ............................................................................................. 16

BCM957414M4140D............................................................................................................................. 17

BCM957412M4120D............................................................................................................................. 18

BCM957416M4160 ............................................................................................................................... 19

Features....................................................................................................................................................... 20

Software and Hardware Features ......................................................................................................... 20

Virtualization Features........................................................................................................................... 21

VXLAN................................................................................................................................................... 22

NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve .............................................................................................................. 22

Stateless Offloads ................................................................................................................................. 22

RSS................................................................................................................................................ 22

TPA ................................................................................................................................................ 22

Header-Payload Split ..................................................................................................................... 22

UDP Fragmentation Offload .................................................................................................................. 22

Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload....................................................................................................... 23

Multiqueue Support for OS.................................................................................................................... 23

NDIS VMQ ..................................................................................................................................... 23

VMWare NetQueue........................................................................................................................ 23

KVM/Xen Multiqueue ..................................................................................................................... 23

SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix ................................................................................................... 23

SR-IOV .................................................................................................................................................. 24

Network Partitioning (NPAR)................................................................................................................. 24

RDMA over Converge Ethernet - RoCE ............................................................................................... 24

Supported Combinations....................................................................................................................... 25

NPAR, SR-IOV, and RoCE ............................................................................................................ 25

NPAR, SR-IOV, and DPDK............................................................................................................ 25

Unsupported Combinations............................................................................................................ 25

February 26, 2018 • NetXtreme-E-UG100

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