Embedded Nics/ Lan On Motherboard (Lom); Overview - Dell PowerEdge R815 Technical Manual

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9 Embedded NICs/ LAN on Motherboard (LOM)

9.1

Overview

Two embedded Broadcom 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the PowerEdge R815
planar as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. Features of the LAN devices
include:

x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface

Integrated MAC and PHY

3072x18 Byte context memory

64 KB receive buffer

TOE (TCP Offload Engine)

iSCSI controller (enabled as standard)

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
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