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1 1 Gbit/s Ethernet I/O Module 107
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1.3 Functionality and Features
1.3.1 Functional Description
This product is a new class of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) converged network interface controller (C-
NIC) that can simultaneously perform accelerated data networking, storage networking, and high-
performance clustering on a standard Ethernet network. The C-NIC offers acceleration for all popular
protocols used in the data center, such as:
• TCP Offload Engine (TOE) for accelerating TCP
` Offloading technologies are supported when this product is installed in a system with
Windows Server 2003 with Scalable Networking Pack (SNP).
Using the Broadcom teaming software, you can split your network into virtual LANs (VLANs) as
well as group multiple network adapters together into teams to provide network load balancing and
fault tolerance functionality. For details about teaming, refer to " Broadcom Advanced Server
Program (BSAP) Overview" (
Jpg.109) in "1.3.3 Teaming Function" (Jpg.109). For a description of
VLANs, refer to "1.3.4 Virtual LAN Function" (
Jpg.112). For instructions on configuring teaming
and creating VLANs on Windows operating systems, refer to "1.3.3 Teaming Function" (
Jpg.109).
1.3.2 Features
The following is a list of this product features:
• TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
• Single-chip solution
- Standard Ethernet frame size (1518 bytes)
- PCI Express v1.0A, x4
- Full fast-path TCP offload
- Zero copy capable hardware
• Other performance features
- TCP, IP, UDP checksum
- TCP segmentation
• Manageability
- Broadcom Advanced Control Suite2 (BACS2) diagnostic and configuration software suite
- Supports PXE 2.0 specification
- Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (IEEE Std 802.3z, Clause
30)
- IPMI support
• Advanced network features
- Jumbo frames (up to 9 KB)
- Virtual LANs
- Flow Control (IEEE Std 802.3x)
- LiveLink™ (supported in both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems)
- Logical Link Control (IEEE Std 802.2)
• Layer-2 Priority Encoding (IEEE 802.1p)