Data Sheet

Inline Functions—Ethernet Controller I210
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7.1.1.3 Manageability Filtering
Manageability filtering is described in Section 10.3.
Figure 7-4 shows the manageability portion of the packet filtering and it is brought here to make the
receive packet filtering functionality description complete.
Note: The manageability engine might decide to block part of the received packets from also being
sent to the host, according to the external MC instructions and the Flash settings.
Figure 7-3. I210 VLAN Filtering
PASS L2
Packet has
VLAN Header
Host VLAN
Filters enable
host VLAN
Filters pass
MNG Only
Check
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MAC address
filtering
Discard
packet
No