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Power Systems Ethernet Adapter Attributes

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Power Systems Ethernet Port Attributes

I found a useful attribute chart for the set of Ethernet adapters for IBM Power Systems servers I would like to share. Like if you find this useful. It is a little wonky as it stands. I am still on a learning curve for getting things to work in these blogs. A spreadsheet version of this can be found here:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=ad44f542-7ab2-4909-8cd6-981054715fe0#fullpageWidgetId=W465135595191_473e_aff1_b7f75c19f341&file=c1d5788e-8ef3-48ee-b97e-99053320a4b8

For more information on SR-IOV see:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp5065.html?Open

This wonderfully complete table thanks to Rakesh Sharma of the IBM Austin Development team

Ethernet port attributes

Integrated Multifunction Cards

10Gb Specialty Cards

10Gb Ethernet Cards

1Gb Ethernet Cards

Adapter feature code #

EN10

EN11

1768

1769

EN0H / EN0J

EN0K / EN0L

EC27 / EC28

EC29 / EC30

5279 / 5745

5280 / 5744

EC2G / EC2J / EL39

EC2H / EC2K / EL3A

5270 / 5708

5286 / 5288

5284 / 5287

5772

5275 / 5769

5272 / 5732

5260 / 5899

5274 / 5768

5281 / 5767

5271 / 5717

Attribute or IEEE Standard

Attribute Description

2 10Gb CNA copper + 2 10/1Gb

2 10Gb CNA SR + 2 10/1Gb

2 10Gb copper + 2 1Gb

2 10Gb SR + 2 1Gb

2 10Gb CNA + 2 1GB

2 10Gb copper RoCE

2 10Gb SR RoCE

2 10Gb copper + 1Gb

2 10Gb SR + 1Gb

2 10Gb copper + Open-OnLoad

2 10Gb copper +

2 10Gb CNA SR

2 10Gb copper

2 10Gb SR

1 10Gb LR opt

1 10Gb SR

1 10Gb CX4

4 1Gb

2 1Gb opt SX

2 1Gb

4 1Gb

Ether II and IEEE 802.3

Ether II and IEEE 802.3 encapsulated frames

802.3i

10Mb Ethernet over twisted pair, 10Base-T

802.3u

100Mb Ethernet over twisted pair, 100Base-TX

802.3x

Full duplex and flow control

802.3.z

1Gb Ethernet over fiber, 1000Base-X

802.3ab

1Gb Ethernet over twisted pair, 1000Base-T

802.3ad/802.1AX

Link Aggregation/LACP/Load Balancing

802.3ae

10Gb Ethernet over fiber

SFP+ Direct Attach

10Gb Ethernet over Direct Attach (DA), 10GSFP+Cu, Twin-ax

802.3ak

10Gb Ethernet over CX4, 10GBase-CX4

802.3an

10Gb Ethernet over twisted pair, 10GBase-T

802.3aq

10Gb Ethernet over multimode fiber, 10GBase-LR

802.1Q VLAN

IEEE VLAN tagging

EtherChannel

Cisco EtherChannel (Manual Link Aggregation)

NIC Failover

Network Interface Backup (NIB) Support

Jumbo Frames

Ethernet jumbo frames

802.1Qaz

Enhanced Transmission Selection

802.1Qbb

Priority based flow control

802.1Q/p

Ethernet frame priorities

Multicast

Ethernet multicast

Checksum Offload

TCP/UDP/IP hardware checksum offload

VIOS

Virtual IO Server Support

RoCE

RDMA over Converged Ethernet

iWARP

RDMA over Ethernet using iWARP Protocol

FCoE

Fibre Channel over Ethernet

iSCSI

Software iSCSI provided by OS

NIM

Network Boot Support

TSO

TCP Segmentation Offload/Large Segment Offload

LRO

Large Receive Offload

OpenOnload (user space TCP/IP)

RFS (recv flow steering)

capable

SRIOV

Single Root I/O Virtualization

(SRIOV only on POWER7+ 770/780 with latest levels of firmware as of April 2014)

Modified on by ScottVetter

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