Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
Broadcom NetXtreme-E-UG304-2CS
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NetXtreme-E User Guide User Guide for Dell Platforms
2 Functional Description
The Broadcom NetXtreme-E (BCM9574XX and BCM9575XX) family of Ethernet controllers are highly-integrated, full-
featured Ethernet LAN controllers optimized for data center and cloud infrastructures. These controllers support 200G/100G/
50G/40G/25G/10G/1G in single or dual-port configurations. All of these controllers support sixteen lanes of PCIe 3. The
BCM9575XX family additionally supports PCIe 4. An extensive set of stateless offloads and virtualization offloads to enhance
packet processing efficiency are included to enable low-overhead, high-speed network communications.
Dell supports 1GBASE-T, 10GBASE-T, 10G SFP+, and 25G SFP28 Network Interface Cards (NICs). These NICs are
described in Table 3.
Table 3: Functional Description
Network Interface Card Description
BCM957412A4120D/BCM957412M4120D/BCM957412N4120DC
Speed
Dual-Port 10 Gb/s Ethernet
PCIe
Gen 3 x8
a
Interface
SFP+ for 10 Gb/s
Device
Broadcom BCM57412 10 Gb/s MAC controller with integrated dual-channel 10 Gb/s SFI
transceiver.
NDIS Name
Broadcom NetXtreme-E Series Dual-Port 10Gb SFP+ Ethernet PCIe Adapter
UEFI Name
Broadcom Dual 10Gb SFP+ Ethernet
BCM957414A4141D/BCM957414M4140D/BCM957414N4140DC
Speed
Dual-Port 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s Ethernet
PCIe
Gen 3 x8
a
Interface
SFP28 for 25 Gb/s and SFP+ for 10 Gb/s
Device
Broadcom BCM57414 25 Gb/s MAC controller with integrated dual-channel 25 Gb/s SFI
transceiver.
NDIS Name
Broadcom NetXtreme- E Series Dual-Port 25 Gb SFP28 Ethernet PCIe Adapter
UEFI Name
Broadcom Dual 25 Gb SFP 28 Ethernet
BCM957504-NGM250D
Speed
Quad Port 25 Gb/s Ethernet
PCIe
Gen4 x16
Interface
Fabric connector for 50 Gb/s
Device
Broadcom BCM57504 100G Gb/s MAC controller with integrated quad-channel 50 GB/s
SFI transceiver.
NDIS Name
Broadcom NetXtreme E-Series Quad-Port 25 Gb Ethernet Network Daughter Card
UEFI Name
Broadcom Advance Quad 25 GB Ethernet
BCM957416A4160D/BCM957416M4160/BCM957416N4160DC
Speed
Dual-Port 10GBASE-T Ethernet
PCIe
Gen 3 x8
a
Interface
RJ-45 for 10 Gb/s
Device
Broadcom BCM57416 10 Gb/s MAC controller with integrated dual-channel 10GBASE-T
transceiver.
NDIS Name
Broadcom NetXtreme-E Series Dual-Port 10GBASE-T Ethernet PCIe Adapter