Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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Figure 21: Activity and Link LED Locations
4 Features
See the following sections for device features.
4.1 Software and Hardware Features
Table 16 provides a list of host interface features.
Table 15: BCM957504-N425D LED Functions
LED Type Color/Behavior Note
Activity Off No Link
Green (blinking) Link up (traffic flowing)
Link Off No Link
Green Linked at 25 Gb/s
Amber Linked at lower speed
Table 16: Host Interface Features
Feature Details
Host Interface BCM9574XX – PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3: 8 GT/s; Gen 2: 5 GT/s; Gen 1: 2.5 GT/s).
BCM9575XX – PCIe 4.0 (Gen 4: 16.0 GT/s; Gen 3: 8 Gb/s, Gen 2: 5 GT/s, Gen 1: 2.5 GT/s)
Number of PCIe lanes PCIe Edge Connectors:
BCM9574XX – x8
BCM9575XX – x16
NOTE: N series adapters support OCP 3.0 interfaces.
Vital Product Data (VPD) Supported.
Alternate Routing ID (ARI) Supported.
Function Level Reset (FLR) Supported.
Advanced Error Reporting Supported.
PCIe ECNs Support for TLP Processing Hints (TPH), Latency Tolerance Reporting (LTR), and Optimized
Buffer Flush/Fill (OBFF).
Port 1 Port 1
Link LED Activity LED
Port 2 Port 2
Link LED Activity LED
Port 3 Port 3
Link LED Activity LED
Port 4 Port 4
Link LED Activity LED