Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57416 10GBASE-T 2-port + 5720 1GbE 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter

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)