Embedded Lan On Motherboard; Overview; Broadcom Bcm5709S; Broadcom Bcm57712-K Ndc - Dell PowerEdge M710HD Technical Manual

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10 Embedded LAN on Motherboard

10.1 Overview

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M710HD supports the following network daughtercards:
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4 x 1GbE Dual Broadcom
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2 x 10GbE Broadcom BCM57712-k

10.2 Broadcom BCM5709S

The BCM5709S provides a complete single-chip dual-port Gigabit Ethernet network controller with
TCP Offload Engine (TOE) and iSCSI Offload Engine (iSOE) support is available on the M710HD. The
M710HD has two embedded Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port LAN on motherboard (LOM) controllers as
independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The BCM5709S features include:
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x4 PCIe Gen2 host interfaces
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Integrated dual-port Layer 4 and Layer 5 solution (TCP/IP, RDMA, and iSCSI)
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Integrated IEEE 802.3-compliant media access control (MAC)
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3072x18 byte context memory
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64 KB receive buffer
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TOE (licensed by default)
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iSCSI offload controller (licensed by default)
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NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for Flex Addressing
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Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
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PXE 2.0 remote boot
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iSCSI boot
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IPv4 and IPv6 support
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Bare metal deployment support

10.3 Broadcom BCM57712-k NDC

The Broadcom BCM57712-k NDC powers the Broadcom dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet network
controller with TOE, iSCSI, and FCoE. The BCM57712-k features include:
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x8 PCIe Gen2 host interface
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Broadcom BCM8073 KR PHY for 10GbE and GbE connectivity
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TOE
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iSCSI offload controller
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FCoE offload
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NIC partitioning
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DCB support
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NC-SI connection for Flex Addressing
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WOL
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PXE 2.1 remote boot
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iSCSI boot
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FCoE boot
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IPv4 and IPv6 support
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Bare metal deployment support
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Optional PCI partitioning providing 8 PFs
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SR-IOV
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Energy-efficient Ethernet support
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