Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Revision History
- Table of Contents
- Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- Functional Description
- Network Link and Activity Indication
- Features
- Software and Hardware Features
- Virtualization Features
- VXLAN
- NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- Stateless Offloads
- UDP Fragmentation Offload
- Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload
- Multiqueue Support for OS
- SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix
- SR-IOV
- Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- Supported Combinations
- Installing the Hardware
- Software Packages and Installation
- Windows Driver Advanced Properties and Event Log Messages
- Teaming
- System-level Configuration
- ISCSI Boot
- VXLAN: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- SR-IOV: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- DCBX – Data Center Bridging
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Features
Refer to the following sections for device features.
Software and Hardware Features
Tabl e 1 6 provides a list of host interface features.
Table 16: Host Interface Features
Feature Details
Host Interface PCI-E v3.0 (Gen 3: 8 GT/s; Gen 2: 5 GT/s; Gen 1:
2.5 GT/s).
Number of PCI-E lanes PCI-E edge connector: x8.
Vital Product Data (VPD) Supported.
Alternate Routing ID (ARI) Supported.
Function Level Reset (FLR) Supported.
Advanced Error Reporting Supported.
PCI-E ECNs Support for TLP Processing Hints (TPH), Latency
Tolerance Reporting (LTR), and Optimized Buffer
Flush/Fill (OBFF).
MSI-X Interrupt vector per queue 1 per RSS queue, 1 per NetQueue, 1 per Virtual
Machine Queue (VMQ).
IP Checksum Offload Support for transmit and receive side.
TCP Checksum Offload Support for transmit and receive side.
UDP Checksum Offload Support for transmit and receive side.
NDIS TCP Large Send Offload Support for LSOV1 and LSOV2.
NDIS Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC) Support for Windows environments.
TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) Support for Linux and VMware environments.
Large Receive Offload (LRO) Support for Linux and VMware environments.
Generic Receive Offload (GRO) Support for Linux and VMware environments.
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) Support for Windows, Linux, and VMware
environments. Up to 8 queues/port supported for
RSS.
Header-Payload Split Enables the software TCP/IP stack to receive TCP/
IP packets with header and payload data split into
separate buffers. Supports Windows, Linux, and
VMware environments.