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
Figure 1: BCM957412A4120D Network Interface Card
NOTE: Figure 1 shows the standard-profile bracket installed. The surface markings of the component may not reflect the
product upon receive. Broadcom reserves the right to change any component on the printed circuit board with the
same functionality.
UEFI Name
Broadcom Dual 10GBASE-T Ethernet
BCM957504-425D
Speed
Quad-Port 25Gb/s Ethernet
PCIe
Gen 4 x16
Interface
SFP 28 for 25 Gb/s
Device
Broadcom BCM57504 50G Gb/s MAC controller with integrated quad-channel 50 Gb/s SFI
transceiver.
NDIS Name
Broadcom NetXtreme-E Series Quad-Port 25Gb SFP28 OCP 3.0 Ethernet Adapter
UEFI Name
Broadcom NetXtreme-E Quad 25Gb SFP28 OCP 3.0 Ethernet
a. The NIC supports PCIe 3, 2, and 1 speeds, however, PCIe is recommended to achieve nominal throughput when 2 ports of 25G links transmit
and receive traffic at the same time.
Table 3: Functional Description (Continued)
Network Interface Card Description