Users Guide

1–Functionality and Features
Features
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 Wake on LAN (WoL) support
 Universal management port (UMP) support
 SMBus controller
 Advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) 1.1a compliant
(multiple power modes) (see “Power Management” on page 5)
 Intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) support
 Advanced network features:
 Jumbo frames (up to 9,600 bytes). The OS and the link partner must
support jumbo frames.
 Virtual LANs
 IEEE Std 802.3ad teaming
 Smart Load Balancing™ teaming
 Flow control (IEEE Std 802.3x)
 LiveLink™ (supported in both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
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operating systems)
 Logical link control (LLC) (IEEE Std 802.2)
 High-speed on-chip reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor (see
“ASIC with Embedded RISC Processor” on page 5)
 Integrated 96KB frame buffer memory
 Quality of service (QoS)
 Serial gigabit media independent interface (SGMII), gigabit media
independent interface (GMII), and media independent interface (MII)
management interface
 256 unique MAC unicast addresses
 Support for multicast addresses through a 128-bit hashing hardware
function
 Serial Flash NVRAM memory
 JTAG support
 PCI Power Management Interface (v1.1)
 64-bit base address register (BAR) support
 EM64T processor support
 iSCSI and FCoE boot support