The Broadcom 57416 10Gb BASE-T Ethernet Adapters are dual-port 10GBASE-T adapters that are fully compliant with the IEEE 802.3an standard and provide a low-cost solution for 10 Gb Ethernet using copper wiring. The adapters are available in PCIe low-profile, OCP 3.0, or ML2 form factor for use in Lenovo ThinkSystem servers.




The adapters have the following specifications:

Dual-channel 10 Gbps Ethernet controller connected to two RJ45 ports
10GBASE-T IEEE 802.3an support
1000BASE-T IEEE 802.3ab support
Based on the BCM57416 controller
Adapter 4XC7A08239 also includes a Broadcom 5720 Gigabit Ethernet controller connected to two additional RJ45 ports
Ports 1 & 2 are connected to the 57416 10 Gbps controller
Ports 3 & 4 are connected to the 5720 Gigabit controller
Supports IPv4 and IPv6
Broadcom TruFlow flow processing engine
PCI Express 3.0 x8 host interface
Form factor:
PCIe low-profile form factor (7ZT7A00496)
OCP 3.0 form factor (4XC7A08236 and 4XC7A08239 )
ML2 form factor (7ZT7A00497)

Virtualization features

SR-IOV support with up to 128 VFs
VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, GRE encapsulation and decapsulation
vSwitch acceleration
Multiqueue, NetQueue, and VMQ
Tunnel-aware stateless offloads
Message Signal Interrupts (MSI-X) support

Ethernet and NIC features:

IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
TCP, UDP, and IP checksum offloads
Large Send Offload (LSO)
Large Receive Offload (LRO)
TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
Receive-side Scaling (RSS)
Transmit-side Scaling (TSS)
VLAN insertion/removal
Interrupt coalescing
Jumbo frames up to 9 KB
Network boot-PXE, UEFI
iSCSI boot
Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK) support

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA):

Supports RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE) specifications

Data Center Bridging / Converged Enhanced Ethernet (DCB/CEE):

Hardware Offloads of Ethernet TCP/IP
802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control (PFC)
802.1 Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
802.1 Qaz Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX)

Management:

SMBus 2.0
MCTP over SMBus
NC-SI support (ML2 and OCP adapters; for 4XC7A08239, NC-SI can be configured on any one of the four ports)