Embedded Lan On Motherboard (Lom); Pci Express Network Daughtercards; Broadcom Bcm5709S; Broadcom Bcm57712 - Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Manual

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10 Embedded LAN on Motherboard (LOM)

10.1 PCI Express Network Daughtercards

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is designed to support two network daughtercards:
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2 x 1GbE dual Broadcom
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2 x 10GbE Broadcom BCM57712

10.2 Broadcom BCM5709S

The embedded Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port LAN controllers are located on the M915 network
daughtercard. The following features are supported:

x4 PCI Express Gen-2 capable interface
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Integrated MAC and PHY
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3072x18 Byte context memory
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64 KB receive buffer
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TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
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iSCSI Offload Engine (iSOE)
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Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI) 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

IPv4 and IPv6 support

Bare-metal deployment support

10.3 Broadcom BCM57712

A Broadcom BCM57712 C-NIC powers the Broadcom 2 x 10GbE network daughtercard and supports
TOE, iSOE, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The following additional features are supported:

X8 PCI Express Gen-2 host interface
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Broadcom BCM8073 KR PHY for 10GbE and GbE connectivity
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DCB support
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NC-SI connection for Flex Addressing
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Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
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PXE 2.1 remote boot
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iSCSI boot

FCoE boot

IPv4 and IPv6 support

Bare-metal deployment support
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Optional PCI Partitioning providing 8 PFs

SR-IOV
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Energy Efficient Ethernet support
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