Introduction; Hardware Requirements - Chelsio Communications Chelsio T5 User Manual

Chapter XIII. Offload Multi-Adapter Failover (MAFO)

1. Introduction

Chelsio's T5 and T4-based adapters offer a complete suite of high reliability features, including
adapter-to-adapter failover. The patented offload Multi-Adapter Failover (MAFO) feature
ensures all offloaded traffic continue operating seamless in the face of port failure.
MAFO allows aggregating network interfaces across multiple adapters into a single logical
bonded interface, providing effective fault tolerance.
The traffic running over the bonded interface can be fully offloaded to the Adapter, thus freeing
the CPU from TCP/IP overhead.
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Portions of this software are covered under US Patent,
Important
migration for full-offload network interface devices : US 8346919 B1
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Use of the covered technology is strictly limited to Chelsio ASIC-based
soutions.
1.1.

Hardware Requirements

1.1.1. Supported Adapters
The following are the currently shipping Chelsio Adapters that are compatible with the Offload
Multi-Adapter Failover driver.
T502-BT
T580-CR
T520-LL-CR
T520-CR
T522-CR
T580-LP-CR
T540-CR
T420-CR
T440-CR
T422-CR
T420-SO-CR
T404-BT
T420-BCH
T440-LP-CR
T420-BT
T420-LL-CR
T420-CX
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