Introduction
Software Developer’s Manual 3
• IEEE 802.3x compliant flow control support
— Enables control of the transmission of Pause packets through software or hardware
triggering
— Provides indications of receive FIFO status
• State-of-the-art internal transceiver (PHY) with DSP architecture implementation
— Digital adaptive equalization and crosstalk
— Echo and crosstalk cancellation
— Automatic MDI/MDI-X crossover at all speeds and compensation for cable length
— Media Independent Interfaces (MII) IEEE 802.3e for supporting 10/10BASE-T
transceivers
• Integrated dual-port solution comprised of two distinct MAC/PHY instances (82546GB/EB)
• Provides on-chip IEEE 802.3z PCS SerDes functionality (82546GB/EB and 82545GM/EM)
1.3.4 Host Offloading Features
• Receive and transmit IP and TCP/UDP checksum offloading capabilities
• Transmit TCP Segmentation (operating system support required)
• Packet filtering based on checksum errors
• Support for various address filtering modes:
— 16 exact matches (unicast, or multicast)
— 4096-bit hash filter for multicast frames
— Promiscuous, unicast and promiscuous multicast transfer modes
• IEEE 802.1q VLAN support
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— Ability to add and strip IEEE 802.1q VLAN tags
— Packet filtering based on VLAN tagging, supporting 4096 tags
• SNMP and RMON statistic counters
• Support for IPv6 including (not applicable to the 82544GC/EI):
— IP/TCP and IP/UDP receive checksum offload
— Wake up filters
— TCP segmentation
1. Not applicable to the 82541ER.