Technical Product Specification for DZ77GA-70K

Intel Desktop Board DZ77GA-70K Technical Product Specification

1.9 LAN Subsystem

The two LAN subsystems consists of the following:

• Intel 82579 Gigabit Ethernet Controller and Intel 82574 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

(10/100/1000 Mb/s)

• Intel Z77 Express Chipset

• RJ-45 LAN connector with integrated status LEDs

Additional features of the LAN subsystem include:

• CSMA/CD protocol engine

• LAN connect interface between the PCH and the LAN controller

• Conventional PCI bus power management

 ACPI technology support

 LAN wake capabilities

• LAN subsystem software

For information about Refer to

LAN software and drivers http://downloadcenter.intel.com

1.9.1 Intel

82579 Gigabit Ethernet Controller and

Intel

82574 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

The Ethernet Controllers supports the following features:

• 10/100/1000 BASE-T IEEE 802.3 compliant

• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) IEEE802.3az support (Low Power Idle [LPI] mode)

• Dual interconnect between the Integrated LAN Controller and the Physical Layer

(PHY):

 PCI Express-based interface for active state operation (S0) state

 SMBUS for host and management traffic (Sx low power state)

• Compliant to IEEE 802.3x flow control support

• 802.1p and 802.1q

• TCP, IP, and UDP checksum offload (for IPv4 and IPv6)

• Full device driver compatibility

• Provides lower power usage to meet Energy Star 5.0 and ErP specifications