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On Board Watch Dog Timer (WDT) Controller.

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Software programmable time out interval.

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Software Programmable WDT Enable / Disable counter.

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Software programmable Bypass Capability Enable / Disable

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Software Programmable Disconnect Capability Enable / Disable.

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Software Programmable mode (Bypass, Normal or Disconnect mode) at Power up.

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Software Programmable mode (Bypass, Normal mode) at Power off.

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Independent Bypass operation in every two ports

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Emulates standard NIC

Performance Features:

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8 Transmit and Receive queues per port.

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Support for 8 pools (single queue) of virtual machine Device Queues (VMDq) per port.

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Support Direct Cache Access (DCA).

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Support Intel I/O Acceleration Technology v3.0.

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TSO interleaving for reduced latency

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Minimized device I/O interrupts using MSI and MSI-X

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UDP, TCP and IP checksum offload

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UDP and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO)

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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload

Common Key features:

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PCI Express ExpressModule Electromechanical Specification Revision 1.0

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Support PCI Express Base Specification 2.0 (5GT/sec)

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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82580 quad integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip controller

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Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum

calculations and TCP segmentation.

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Server class reliability, availability and performance features:

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Link Aggregation and Load Balancing

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Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC)

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Switch and NIC Independent.

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Failover

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Priority queuing

– 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding.

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Virtual LANs

–802.1q VLAN tagging.