Installation guide

Chapter 1: Introducing the AT-ANC10S/2 and AT-ANC10S/4 Adapters
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Features
The following features apply to the AT-ANC10S/2 and AT-ANC10S/4
adapters:
 Dual 10 Gbps MAC on the AT-ANC10S/2 adapter
 Quad 10 Gbps MAC on the AT-ANC10S/4 adapter
 TCP segmentation offload
 PXE v2.1 remote boot
 Receive side scaling (RSS) for IPv4 and IPv6
 Statistics gathering (SNMP MIB II)
 Comprehensive diagnostic and configuration software suite
 ACPI compliant power management
 Virtual LANs-802.1q VLAN tagging
 Jumbo frames (up to 9 KB). The OS and link partner must support
jumbo frames.
 MSI, MSI-X
 LiveLink™
 PCI Express x8 v3.0, 8 GTps-compliant
 PCI Express x8 v2.0, 5 GTps-compliant
 PCI Express x8 v1.1, 2.5 GTps-compliant
 Smart Load Balancing Teaming
 IEEE Std 802.3ad teaming
Adaptive
Interrupt
Frequency
The adapter driver intelligently adjusts host interrupt frequency based on
traffic conditions to increase overall application throughput. When traffic is
light, the adapter driver interrupts the host for each received packet,
minimizing latency. When traffic is heavy, the adapter issues one host
interrupt for multiple, back-to-back incoming packets, preserving host CPU
cycles.
ASIC with
Embedded RISC
Processor
The core control for the ANC10S network adapters resides in a tightly
integrated, high-performance ASIC. The ASIC includes a RISC processor.
This functionality provides the flexibility to add new features to the card
and adapts it to future network requirements through software downloads.
This functionality also enables the adapter drivers to exploit the built-in
host offload functions on the adapter as host operating systems are
enhanced to take advantage of these functions.