Dell PowerEdge M710HD Technical Guide - Page 28

Dell 10 Embedded LAN on Motherboard 10.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M710HD supports the following network daughtercards:  4 x 1GbE Dual Broadcom® BCM5709S  2 x 10GbE Broadcom BCM57712-k 10.2 Broadcom BCM5709S The BCM5709S provides a complete single-chip dual-port Gigabit Ethernet network controller with TCP Offload Engine (TOE) and iSCSI Offload Engine (iSOE) support is available on the M710HD. The M710HD has two embedded Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port LAN on motherboard (LOM) controllers as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The BCM5709S features include:  x4 PCIe Gen2 host interfaces  Integrated dual-port Layer 4 and Layer 5 solution (TCP/IP, RDMA, and iSCSI)  Integrated IEEE 802.3-compliant media access control (MAC)  3072x18 byte context memory  64 KB receive buffer  TOE (licensed by default)  iSCSI offload controller (licensed by default)  NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for Flex Addressing  Wake-On-LAN (WOL)  PXE 2.0 remote boot  iSCSI boot  IPv4 and IPv6 support  Bare metal deployment support 10.3 Broadcom BCM57712-k NDC The Broadcom BCM57712-k NDC powers the Broadcom dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet network controller with TOE, iSCSI, and FCoE. The BCM57712-k features include:  x8 PCIe Gen2 host interface  Broadcom BCM8073 KR PHY for 10GbE and GbE connectivity  TOE  iSCSI offload controller  FCoE offload  NIC partitioning  DCB support  NC-SI connection for Flex Addressing  WOL  PXE 2.1 remote boot  iSCSI boot  FCoE boot  IPv4 and IPv6 support  Bare metal deployment support  Optional PCI partitioning providing 8 PFs  SR-IOV  Energy-efficient Ethernet support PowerEdge M710HD Technical Guide 28