Users Guide

Broadcom NetXtreme-E-UG304-2CS
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NetXtreme-E User Guide User Guide for Dell Platforms
Table of Contents
1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals...............................................................................................................................7
1.1 Class A Warning Statements ...............................................................................................................................8
1.2 Class B Warning Statements ...............................................................................................................................9
2 Functional Description ..............................................................................................................................................10
3 Network Link and Activity Indication .......................................................................................................................18
3.1 BCM957412AXXXX ...........................................................................................................................................18
3.2 BCM957414AXXXX ...........................................................................................................................................19
3.3 BCM957416AXXXX ...........................................................................................................................................20
3.4 BCM957414M4140D .........................................................................................................................................21
3.5 BCM957412M4120D .........................................................................................................................................22
3.6 BCM957416M4160 ............................................................................................................................................23
3.7 BCM957412N4120DC .......................................................................................................................................24
3.8 BCM957414N4140DC .......................................................................................................................................25
3.9 BCM957416N4160DC .......................................................................................................................................26
3.10 BCM957504-N425D.........................................................................................................................................26
4 Features ......................................................................................................................................................................27
4.1 Software and Hardware Features ......................................................................................................................27
4.2 Virtualization Features .......................................................................................................................................28
4.3 VXLAN ...............................................................................................................................................................30
4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve...........................................................................................................................30
4.5 Stateless Offloads..............................................................................................................................................30
4.5.1 IP, TCP, UDP Checksum Offload ............................................................................................................30
4.5.2 UDP Fragmentation Offload ....................................................................................................................30
4.5.3 TCP Segmentation Offload and Large Send Offload...............................................................................30
4.5.4 Generic Receive Offload (GRO) and Large Receive Offload (LRO) .......................................................30
4.5.5 Header and Data Split .............................................................................................................................31
4.5.6 VLAN Tag Insertion and Removal ...........................................................................................................31
4.5.7 Packet Steering .......................................................................................................................................31
4.5.8 Data Center Bridging ...............................................................................................................................31
4.6 Priority Flow Control...........................................................................................................................................32
4.7 Virtualization Offload..........................................................................................................................................32
4.7.1 Multiqueue Support..................................................................................................................................32
4.7.2 KVM/Xen Multiqueue ...............................................................................................................................32
4.7.3 Virtual Machine Queue ............................................................................................................................32
4.7.4 Tunneling Offload ....................................................................................................................................32
4.8 SR-IOV...............................................................................................................................................................35
4.8.1 SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix......................................................................................................37
4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR) .............................................................................................................................37