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Dell
PowerEdge R710 Technical Guide 39
Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
The PowerEdge R710 has embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers with TCP Offload Engine (TOE) support. Two
embedded Broadcom
®
5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the R710 planar as independent Gigabit Ethernet
interface devices. The following information details the features of the LAN devices:
• x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface (R710 operates this controller 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 through 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