Product Description

General Features
Intel Ethernet Controller I**0
With PCI Express- V2.1 (5 GT/s) Support
Halogen Free1
Low-Profile and Standard height full



Ethernet Features
IEEE- **2.3 auto-negotiation
1Gb/s Ethernet IEEE **2.3, **2.3u, **2.3ab PHY specifications Compliant
Integrated PHY for *0/**0/***0 Mb/s for multispeed, full, and half-duplex
IEEE **2.3x and **2.3z compliant flow control support with software-controllable Rx thresholds and Tx pause frames
Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)
IEEE ***8 protocol and **2.1AS implementation



Power Management and Efficiency

IEEE**2.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
DMA Coalescing
Smart Power Down (SPD) at S0 no link / Sx no link
ActiveStatePower Management (ASPM) Support
LAN disable function
Full wake up support
Advanced Power Management (APM) Support (formerly Wake on LAN)
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification v2.0c
Magic Packet- wake-up enable with unique MAC address
ACPI register set and power down functionality supporting D0 and D3 states
MAC Power Management controls
Low Power Link Up - Link Speed Control
Power Management Protocol Offload (Proxying)
Latency Tolerance Reporting (LTR)




I/O Virtualization Features
Eight transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) queue pairs per port
Flexible Port Partitioning:
*2 Virtual Functions on Quad-port or *6 Virtual Functions on Dual-port
Support for PCI-SIG SR-IOV specification
Rx/Tx Round-Robin Scheduling
Traffic Isolation
Traffic Steering
VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)
MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing
Malicious driver detection
Storm control
Per-pool statistics, offloads, and jumbo frames support
Independent Function Level Reset (FLR) for Physical and Virtual Functions
IEEE **2.1q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to ***6 VLAN tags
IEEE **2.1q advanced packet filtering
Mirroring rules
Support for Simple VEPA
VF Promiscuous modes



Stateless Offloads/Performance Features
TCP/UDP, IPv4 checksum offloads (Rx/ Tx/Large-send);ExtendedTxdescriptors for more offload capabilities
IPv6 support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP receive checksum offload
Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6)
Transmit Segmentation Offloading (TSO)
Interrupt throttling control
Legacy and Message Signal Interrupt (MSI) Modes
Message Signal Interrupt Extension (MSI-X)
Intelligent interrupt generation
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows environment
Scalable I/O for Linux environments (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP
Support for packets up to 9.5K Bytes ( Jumbo Frames)
Low Latency Interrupts
Header/packet data split in receive
PCIe v2.1 TLP Processing Hint Requester
Descriptor ring management hardware for Transmit and Receive



Remote Boot Options
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) flash interface support
Intel Ethernet iSCSI Remote Boot for Windows, Linux, and VMware
Intel Boot Agent software:Linux boot via PXE or BOOTP, Windows- Deployment Services, or UEFI



Manageability Features
Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP)
Firmware Based Thermal Management
IEEE **2.3 MII Management Interface
MAC/PHY Control and Status
Watchdog timer
Extended error reporting
Controller Memory Protection
Vital Product Data (VPD) Support



Adapter Product Features
Plug and play specification support
Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT)
Ships with full-height bracket installed; low-profile bracket included in package



Technical Features
Data rate supported per port: *0/**0/***0 Mbps
Bus type: PCI Express- 2.1 (5 GT/s))
Bus width: *-lane PCI Express; operable in x4, x8 and x*6 slots
Interrupt levels: INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD, MSI, MSI-X
Controller-processor: Intel Ethernet Controller I**0
Power consumption (typical): 6.0 W
Storage temperature: **0 to *0 Centigrade
Operating temperature :0 to *5 Centigrade
Storage humidity: *0% non-condensing relative humidity at *5 Centigrade


Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
DOS, Novell ODI
Windows XP **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***3 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Vista **-bit(**-bit)
Windows 7 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows 8 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows 8.1 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***8 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***8 R2 **-bit(**-bit)
Windows Server ***2
Windows Server ***2 R2
Linux 2.4 series kernel,2.6.x,3.x
FreeBSD 7.x or most of the FreeBSD
UnixWare / Open Unix 8
Sun Solaris x*6
Xen4
VMware