Bypass /Disconnect:




Bypass Ethernet ports on Power Fail, System Hangs or Software Application Hangs


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Disconnect ports on Power Fail, System Hangs or Software Application Hangs


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Software programmable Bypass or Normal or Disconnect Mode


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On Board Watch Dog Timer (WDT) Controller


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Software programmable time out interval


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Software Programmable WDT Enable / Disable counter


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Software programmable Bypass Capability Enable / Disable


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Software programmable Disconnect Capability Enable / Disable


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Programmable state (Bypass mode or Normal mode or Disconnect mode) at Power up


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Programmable state ( Bypass or Normal mode) at Power off


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Emulates standard NIC


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Performance Features:




16 Transmit and Receive queues per port


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Up to 16 queues of Receive Side Scaling (RSS) minimize CPU utilization across multiple processor systems


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Support for 8 pools of virtual machine Device Queues ( VMDq) per port


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Support Direct Cache Access ( DCA)


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Support Intel I/O AT 2.0


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TSO interleaving for reduced latency


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UDP TSO


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Minimized device I/O interrupts using MSI and MSI-X


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Offload of TCP / IP / UDP checksum calculation and TCP segmentation


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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload


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Packet interrupt coalescing timers (packet timers) and absolute- delay interrupt timers for both transmit and receive operation


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Copper Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-T:




Independently copper Gigabit Ethernet channels support six, four, two and one Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T), Fast Ethernet (100Base-Tx) and Ethernet (10Base-T)


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Triple speed 1000Mbps (1000Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx) and 10 Mbps (100Base-T) operation


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Nway auto negotiation automatic sensing and switching between 1Gbps full duplex and 100 / 10 Mbps operations Simplex or Full Duplex


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RJ-45 female connectors


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Common Key features:




Host Interface PCI-Express 4X Lane (Version 1.1).


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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82576 dual integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip controller


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Ultra deep packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization


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Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation


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Priority queuing – 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding


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Virtual LANs –802.1q VLAN tagging


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Jumbo Frame (9.5KB)


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802.x flow control


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PCI-SIG SR IOV (8 VF)


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Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication


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Statistics for SNMP


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Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)


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Integrated LinkSec security engines


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Supports IEEE 1588


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LEDs indicators for link/Activity/Bypass/ Disconnect Mode status