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Key Features

Bypass:

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Bypass / Disconnect Ethernet ports on Power Fail, System Hangs or Software Application Hangs

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Software programmable Bypass, Disconnect or Normal Mode

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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

Copper Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-T :

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Independently copper Gigabit Ethernet channels support four Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T), Fast Ethernet (100Base-Tx) and

Ethernet (10Base-T)

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Triple speed 1000Mbps (1000Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx) and 10 Mbps (100Base-T) operation

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Nway auto negotiation automatic sensing and switching between 1Gbps full duplex and 100 / 10 Mbps operations Simplex or

Full Duplex

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RJ-45 female connectors

Performance Features:

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8 Transmit and Receive queues per port

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Up to 8 queues of Receive Side Scaling (RSS) minimize CPU utilization across multiple processor systems

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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

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Packet interrupt coalescing timers (packet timers) and absolute- delay interrupt timers for both transmit and receive operation

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