PCIe2 2-port 10 GbE BaseT RJ45 adapter (FC EL3Z, FC EL55, FC EN0W, and FC EN0X; CCIN 2CC4)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EL3Z, FC EL55, FC EN0W, or FC EN0X adapter.
Overview
The PCIe2 2-port 10 GbE BaseT RJ45 adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 2, x8 adapter. The FC EL3Z and FC EN0X are short form-factor, low-profile adapters. The FC EL55 and FC EN0W are regular height adapters that are low profile capable. The adapters provide two 10 Gb RJ45 ports and a PCIe 2.0 host bus interface. The adapters support the Ethernet network interface controller (NIC) function. The adapters are high-performance adapters that consolidate traffic for networking. The link aggregation and failover features of the adapters make them suitable for critical network applications that require redundancy and high availability.
The ports default to auto negotiate the highest speed either at 10 Gb (10G BaseT), 1Gb (1000 BaseT), or 100 Mb (100 BaseT) full duplex. Each RJ45 port can be configured independent of the other port. The RJ45 ports use 4-pair CAT-6A cabling for distances of up to 100 meters or CAT-6 cabling for distances up to 37 meters. CAT-5 cabling is not supported.
- The adapter is a PCIe2 NIC network convergence adapter.
- The 10 Gb RJ45 ports can function in the NIC mode.
- The adapter can be used as the host local area network (LAN) adapter.
- The adapter supports interrupt moderation to deliver increased performance while significantly reducing processor utilization
- The adapter supports dual port operation in any PCIe3 or PCIe2 slot.
- The adapter supports auto-negotiation, full-duplex only.
- The adapter supports multiple media-access control (MAC) per interface.
- The adapter supports integrated media-access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY).
- The adapter supports the following standards for the different ports and functions:
- IEEE 802.3ae in the 10 GbE ports
- 802.3ab in the 1 GbE ports
- Ether II and IEEE 802.3 for encapsulated frames
- 802.1p for setting up priority levels in tagged VLAN frames
- 802.1Q for VLAN tagging
- 802.3x for flow control
- 802.3ad for load-balancing and failover
- IEEE 802.3ad and 802.3 for link aggregation
- The adapter provides message signal interrupts (MSI), MSI-X, and support of legacy pin interrupts.
- The adapter supports jumbo frames up to 9.6 KB.
- The adapter supports gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) with the existing software.
- The adapter supports TCP checksum offload transmission control protocol (TCP), user datagram protocol (UDP), TCP segmentation Offload (TSO) for IPv4 and IPv6.
- Supports TCP segmentation or large send offload
- Supports EEPROM-SPI and single EEPROM
Specifications
- Item
- Description
- Adapter FRU number
- 00E2714
- Wrap plug FRU number
- 10N7405 (RJ45 wrap plug).Note: Wrap plugs are not included with the card and cannot be purchased from IBM®.
- I/O bus architecture
- PCIe2 x8.
- Slot requirement
- For details about slot priorities, maximums, and placement rules, see PCIe adapter placement rules and slot priorities and select the system you are working on.
- Cables
- CAT-6 cable.
- Voltage
- 3.3 V.
- Form factor
- Short, low-profile.
Operating system or partition requirements
- The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from the Fix Central website.
- Power Systems Prerequisites website.
- IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) website.
- The latest version of the device driver or IBM Power® RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be downloaded from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website.
- For information about important notices for Linux on IBM Power Systems, see the Linux® on IBM website.
- AIX®: devices.pciex.e4148e1614109204
- Linux: bnx2x driver