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PowerEdge R610 Technical Guide      36 
10  Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) 
The PowerEdge R610 has embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers with TCP Offload Engine (TOE) 
support. Two embedded Broadcom
®
 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the R610 planar as 
independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The following information details the features of the 
LAN devices: 
•  x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface (controller operated at Gen1 speed) 
•  Integrated MAC and PHY 3072x18 Byte context memory  
•  64 KB receive buffer  
•  TOE (TCP Offload Engine)  
•  iSCSI controller (enabled through an optional hardware key)  
•  RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled post-RTS through an optional hardware key)  
•  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 










