Specifications

Dell
PowerEdge R715 Technical Guide 35
9 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
Two embedded Broadcom 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the PowerEdge R715 planar as
independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The following information details the features of the
LAN devices include:
• x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface
• Controller operated at x2Gen2 speed
• Integrated MAC and PHY
• 3072x18 byte context memory
• 64 KB receive buffer
• TOE (TCP Offload Engine)
• iSCSI Offload Engine (enabled as standard)
• NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for manageability
• Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
• PXE 2.0 remote boot
• iSCSI boot
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• Bare-metal deployment support
• Embedded LAN devices also support teaming with NIC adapters across multiple ports