User`s guide

Board Features
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• Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The
controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation.
• Server class reliability, availability and performance features:
– Link Aggregation and Load Balancing:
Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC)
Switch and NIC Independent.
Failover
• Priority queuing - 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding.
• Virtual LANs - 802.1q VLAN tagging.
• Jumbo Frame (9KB).
• 802.x flow control.
• Boot ROM embedded or optional can be used for Boot ROM applications.
• PCI Power Management Interface. (v1.1)
• Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (802.3z, Clause 30)
• LEDs indicators for link/Activity/Speed status.
For full technical specifications of the board, see Appendix A, “Specifications”.
Note: The hardware MAC addresses for the two ports are lowest at the top of the card
and highest at the bottom of the card.
Figure 1-1 shows the dual-port fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express board.