IBM System x3650 M4 BD Product Manual

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IBM System x3650 M4 BD Product Guide 21Ethernet features:1 Gb Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, and 802.3ab PHY specifications compliantIntegrated PHY for 10/100/1000 Mbps for multispeed, full, and half-duplex auto-negotiationIEEE 802.3x and 802.3z compliant flow control support with software-controllable Rx thresholdsand Tx pause framesAutomatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)IEEE 1588 protocol and 802.1AS implementationIEEE802.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)Full wake-up supportAdvanced Power Management (APM) supportoAdvanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification v2.0coMagic packet wake-up enableoI/O Virtualization Features:Eight transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) queue pairs per portFlexible port partitioning: 32 virtual functions (VF) with four ports or 16 VFs with two portsRx/Tx round-robin schedulingTraffic isolation and traffic steeringVirtual machine (VM) to VM packet forwarding (packet loopback)MAC and VLAN anti-spoofingMalicious driver detectionStorm controlPer-pool statistics, off loads, and jumbo supportIndependent Function Level Reset (FLR) for physical and virtual functionsIEEE 802.1q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping, andpacket filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tagsIEEE 802.1q advanced packet filteringMirroring rulesSupport for simple VEPAVF promiscuous modesStateless offload and performance features:TCP/UDP, IPv4 checksum offloads (Rx/ Tx/Large-send); extended Tx descriptorsIPv6 support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP receive checksum offloadTx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4 and IPv6)Transmit Segmentation Offloading (TSO)Interrupt throttling controlLegacy and Message Signal Interrupt (MSI)Message Signal Interrupt Extension (MSI-X)Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for WindowsScalable I/O for Linux environments (IPv4, IPv6, and TCP/UDP)Support for packets up to 9.5 KB (jumbo frames)