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10 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
The PowerEdge R710 has embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers with TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
support. Two embedded Broadcom
independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The following information details the features of the
LAN devices:
x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface (R710 operates this controller at Gen1 speed)
Integrated MAC and PHY 3072x18 Byte context memory
64 KB receive buffer
TOE (TCP Offload Engine)
iSCSI controller (enabled through an optional hardware key)
RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled through optional hardware key)
NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for manageability
Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
PXE 2.0 remote boot
iSCSI boot
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Bare metal deployment support
PowerEdge R710 Technical Guide
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5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the R710 planar as
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