Functional Description - Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual

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Functionality and Features: Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX User
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Functional Description

Features
Supported Operating Environments
Network Link and Activity Indication
Functional Description
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapters connect a PCI, PCI-X (BCM5701 and BCM5703), or PCI Express™ (BCM5751,
BCM5721, and BCM5722) compliant system to a Gigabit Ethernet network. Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapters
incorporate a technology that transfers data at a maximum rate of 1 gigabit per second—10 times the rate of Fast Ethernet
adapters.
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapters target the increased congestion experienced at the backbone and system in
today's networks and provide a future upgrade path for systems that require more bandwidth than Fast Ethernet can provide.
Using the Broadcom teaming software, you can split your network into virtual LANs (VLANs) as well as group multiple network
adapters together into teams to provide network load balancing and fault tolerance functionality. See
Gigabit Ethernet Teaming Services
Configuring Teaming for instructions on configuring teaming and creating VLANs on Windows and NetWare operating systems.
Features
The following is a list of the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter features for all supported operating systems:
PCI Express™ x1 Lane support (BCM5751, BCM5721, and BCM5722)
Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE Std 802.3-1999)
Logical Link Control (IEEE Std 802.2)
Flow Control (IEEE Std 802.3x)
Standard Ethernet frame size (1518 bytes)
TBI (SerDes style) transceiver interfaces (except for BCM5721, BCM5751, and BCM5722)
Jumbo frames (up to 9 KB) (except for BCM5721, BCM5751, and BCM5722); NetWare 5.1 does not support Jumbo
frames.
Layer-2 Priority Encoding (IEEE 802.1p)
High-speed on-chip RISC processor
Adaptive interrupt frequency
Up to 4 classes of service (CoS)
Up to 4 send rings and receive rings
Integrated 96 KB frame buffer memory
GMI/MII Management Interface
Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (IEEE Std 802.3z, Clause 30)
4 unique MAC unicast addresses
Support for multicast addresses via 128 bits hashing hardware function
Serial EEPROM or serial NVRAM flash memory
Supports PXE 2.1 specification (Linux Red Hat PXE Server, Windows Server 2003, Intel APITEST, DOS UNDI)
JTAG support
for detailed information about teaming. See
Teaming
Virtual LANs for a description of VLANs. See
and Broadcom