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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:
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 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 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| 802.3i | 10Mb Ethernet over twisted pair, 10Base-T | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 802.3u | 100Mb Ethernet over twisted pair, 100Base-TX | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||
| 802.3x | Full duplex and flow control | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| 802.3.z | 1Gb Ethernet over fiber, 1000Base-X | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 802.3ab | 1Gb Ethernet over twisted pair, 1000Base-T | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||
| 802.3ad/802.1AX | Link Aggregation/LACP/Load Balancing | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| 802.3ae | 10Gb Ethernet over fiber | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||
| SFP+ Direct Attach | 10Gb Ethernet over Direct Attach (DA), 10GSFP+Cu, Twin-ax | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||||||||
| 802.3ak | 10Gb Ethernet over CX4, 10GBase-CX4 | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 802.3an | 10Gb Ethernet over twisted pair, 10GBase-T | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 802.3aq | 10Gb Ethernet over multimode fiber, 10GBase-LR | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 802.1Q VLAN | IEEE VLAN tagging | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| EtherChannel | Cisco EtherChannel (Manual Link Aggregation) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| NIC Failover | Network Interface Backup (NIB) Support | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Jumbo Frames | Ethernet jumbo frames | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| 802.1Qaz | Enhanced Transmission Selection | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
| 802.1Qbb | Priority based flow control | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||
| 802.1Q/p | Ethernet frame priorities | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Multicast | Ethernet multicast | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Checksum Offload | TCP/UDP/IP hardware checksum offload | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| VIOS | Virtual IO Server Support | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| RoCE | RDMA over Converged Ethernet | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| iWARP | RDMA over Ethernet using iWARP Protocol | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| FCoE | Fibre Channel over Ethernet | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
| iSCSI | Software iSCSI provided by OS | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| NIM | Network Boot Support | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| TSO | TCP Segmentation Offload/Large Segment Offload | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| LRO | Large Receive Offload | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| OpenOnload (user space TCP/IP) | x | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RFS (recv flow steering) | capable | capable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SRIOV | Single Root I/O Virtualization | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (SRIOV only on POWER7+ 770/780 with latest levels of firmware as of April 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
