The IBM Power6 8203-E4A (#5769) 10 Gigabit Ethernet-SR PCI Express Adapter</p><p>The 10 Gigabit Ethernet-SR PCI Express Adapter is a low-profile, high performance adapter that uses a LC Duplex type connector and is capable of transferring data a distance of 300m over MMF-850nm Fiber cable. The product conforms to the IEEE, 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR specification for Ethernet transmission. </p><p></p><p>Highlights </p><p></p><p>Implements iWARP RDMA/RDDP (Remote Direct Data Placement) which adheres to IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards. (Linux Only) </p><p>RDMA-enabled NIC (RNIC) specifically optimized for cluster computing (Linux Only) </p><p>Full iSCSI initiator and target mode stack (Linux Only) </p><p>iSCSI Header & Data Digest (CRC) generation & checking (Linux Only) </p><p>PDU recovery (Linux Only) </p><p>Attributes </p><p></p><p>MSI-X, MSI and support of legacy pin interrupts </p><p>10GBASE-SR short-reach optics </p><p>IEEE 802.3ae (10 GbE) </p><p>IEEE 802.1p priority and 802.1Q VLAN tagging </p><p>IEEE 802.3x flow control </p><p>Link aggregation, 802.3ad 802.3 compliance </p><p>IEEE 802.3ad load-balancing and failover </p><p>Ether II and 802.3 encapsulated frames </p><p>Multiple MAC addresses per interface </p><p>Jumbo frames up to 9.6 Kbytes </p><p>TCP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6 </p><p>TCP segmentation Offload (TSO) for IPv4 and IPv6 </p><p>UDP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6 </p><p>Receive side scaling and packet steering </p><p>Line rate packet filtering and attack protection </p><p>IETF RDDP and RDMAC iWARP compliance (Linux Only) </p><p>APIs: RNIC-PI, kDAPL and OpenFabrics 1.4 (Linux Only) </p><p>Attributes provided: PCIe-V1.1 x8 10GBASE-SR short -reach optics adapter </p><p>Attributes required: PCI Express slot, Fiber Cable (Optional LC-SC 62.5 micron converter cable, 50 micron LC-SC connections), LC wrap plug-d </p><p>For 8203-E4A: The IBM Power6 8203-E4A (#5769) </p><p>Minimum required: 0 </p><p>Maximum allowed: 16 (Initial order maximum: 16) </p><p>OS level required: </p><p>AIX 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level, or later </p><p>AIX 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level, or later </p><p>IBM i - not supported </p><p>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 or later </p><p>Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.3 or later </p><p>Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both </p><p>CSU: Yes </p><p>Return parts MES: No </p><p>Note: Maximum of 4 per processor. </p><p></p><p>Note: Minimum Firmware EM340_063_063 or later. </p><p></p><p>
