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Converged Network Adapters
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Supported Ethernet protocols and
features
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803.3ae (10 Gbps Ethernet)
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802.1q (VLAN)
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802.1q (tagging)
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802.1P (tagging)
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802.1Qaz (enhanced transmission selection)
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802.1Qbb (priority flow control)
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802.1AB (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
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802.3ad (link aggregation)
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802.1p (priority encoding)
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802.3x (Ethernet flow control)
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802.3ap - KX/KX4 (auto negotiation)
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802.3ak - CX4
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PXE (Pre-Boot Execution Environment)
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UNDI (Universal Network Device Interface)
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NDIS (Network Data Interface Specification)
6.2
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EEE 1149.1 (JTAG) for manufacturing debug
and diagnostics.
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IP/TCP/UDP Checksum Offload
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IPv4 Specification (RFC 791)
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IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460)
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TCP/UDP Specification (RFC 793/768)
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ARP Specification (RFC 826)
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Data Center Bridging (DCB) Capability
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DCB Exchange Protocol (DCBXP) 1.0 and 1.1
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Dell iSCSI
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Flexible MAC addressing
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RSS with support for IPV4TCP, IPV4, IPV6TCP,
IPV6 hash types
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Syslog
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Jumbo frames
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Interrupt coalescing
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Interrupt moderation
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Multiple transmit queues for Windows and
Linux
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Multiple transmit priority queues
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Network Priority
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Large and small receive buffers
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SNMP (Windows and Linux)
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TCP Large Segment Offload
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Team VM queues
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NetQueues with multiple priority levels for
VMware
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Unicast MAC address
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MAC filtering
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Multicast MAC addresses
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VLAN Discovery using proprietary logic
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VLAN discovery for untagged/priority-tagged
FIP frames
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VLAN filtering
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VMware NetQueues v3 (VMware 4.1 and
above)
TABLE 19 CNA hardware specifications (continued)
Feature Description