Users Guide

Table of ContentsNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
September 4, 2019 • NetXtreme-E-UG103 Page 3
Table of Contents
Regulatory and Safety Approvals............................................................................................................... 7
Regulatory............................................................................................................................................... 7
Safety ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)...................................................................................................... 8
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Compliance............................................................................................. 8
FCC Statement........................................................................................................................................ 8
Functional Description................................................................................................................................. 9
Network Link and Activity Indication........................................................................................................ 16
BCM957402AXXXX/BCM957412AXXXX ............................................................................................. 16
BCM957404AXXXX/BCM957414AXXXX ............................................................................................. 17
BCM957406AXXXX/BCM957416AXXXX ............................................................................................. 18
BCM957414M4140D............................................................................................................................. 19
BCM957412M4120D............................................................................................................................. 20
BCM957416M4160 ............................................................................................................................... 21
BCM957412N4120DC........................................................................................................................... 22
BCM957414N4140DC........................................................................................................................... 23
BCM957416N4160DC........................................................................................................................... 24
Features....................................................................................................................................................... 25
Software and Hardware Features ......................................................................................................... 25
Virtualization Features........................................................................................................................... 26
VXLAN................................................................................................................................................... 27
NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve .............................................................................................................. 27
Stateless Offloads ................................................................................................................................. 27
RSS................................................................................................................................................ 27
TPA ................................................................................................................................................ 27
Header-Payload Split ..................................................................................................................... 27
UDP Fragmentation Offload .................................................................................................................. 27
Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload....................................................................................................... 28
Multiqueue Support for OS.................................................................................................................... 28
NDIS VMQ ..................................................................................................................................... 28
VMWare NetQueue................................................
........................................................................ 28
KVM/Xen Multiqueue ..................................................................................................................... 28
SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix ................................................................................................... 28
SR-IOV .................................................................................................................................................. 29
Network Partitioning (NPAR)................................................................................................................. 29
RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE ............................................................................................. 29
Supported Combinations....................................................................................................................... 30