IBM i Series 8205-E6B (#5272) - PCIe LP 10GbE CX4 1-port Adapter</p><p>This feature is the Low Profile (LP) equivalent of feature number 5732. The 10 Gigabit Ethernet-CX4 PCI Express Adapter is a low profile high performance adapter that transfers data over 4-lanes in each direction over copper cabling supporting a distance up to 15m.The product conforms to the IEEE, 802.3ae 10GBASE-CX4 specification for Ethernet transmission.</p><p>Highlights:</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 software and hardware initiator support. (Linux Only)</p><p>Hardware PDU Offload (Linux Only)</p><p>iSCSI Header & Data Digest (CRC) generation & checking ( Linux Only)</p><p>Attributes provided:</p><p>PCIe-V1.1 x8</p><p>MSI-X, MSI and support of legacy pin interrupts</p><p>10GBASE-CX short-reach copper</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 Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution(OFED) 1.4 (Linux Only)</p><p>Attributes provided: PCI-e-V1.1 x8 Ethernet</p><p>Attributes required: 1 Low Profile (LP) slot</p><p>For 8202-E4B: (#5272)</p><p>Minimum required: 0</p><p>Maximum allowed: 4 (Initial order maximum: 4)</p><p>OS level required:</p><p>AIX Version 5.3 supported</p><p>AIX Version 6.1 supported</p><p>AIX Version 7.1 supported</p><p>SUSE Linux supported</p><p>Red Hat Linux supported</p><p>Refer to Software Requirements for specific O/S levels supported</p><p>Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both</p><p>CSU: Yes</p><p>Return parts MES: No</p><p>Note:</p><p>Maximum of 4 supported in the CEC
