Features;
Genera
Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Low-profile
iSCSI remote boot support
Load balancing on multiple CPUs
Compatible with x4, x8, and x16 standard and low-profile PCI Express slots
Multi-port design
Support for most network operating systems (NOS)
Intel PROSet Utility for Windows Device Manager
Onboard uni-directional transmit optical module and uni-directional receive optical module, 1310nm wavelength
uni-directional LC Connector .
I/O Features for Multi-Core Processor Servers
Multiple queues & receive-side scaling
MSI-X support
Low Latency Interrupts
Header splits and replication in receive
Multiple queues: 8 queues per port
Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6)
Receive and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows environment and Scalable I/O for Linux environments (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP)
IPsec Offload
LinkSec
Virtualization Features
Virtual Machine Device queues2 (VMDq)
Next-generation VMDq
IPv6 offloading
Advanced packet filtering
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
PC-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (8 virtual functions per port)
Manageability Features
On-board microcontroller
Advanced filtering capabilities
Preboot execution Environment (PXE) Support
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Statistic Counters
Wake-on-LAN support
iSCSI boot
Watchdog timer
IEEE 1588 precision time control protocol
Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista 32-bit (64-bit)
Windows 7 32-bit (64-bit)
Windows 8 32-bit (64-bit)
Windows Server 2003 32-bit (64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 32-bit (64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 32-bit (64-bit)
Windows Server 2012 R2 32-bit (64-bit)
Novell Netware 5.x、6.x
Linux kernel version 2.6.30 or greater (x86_64) (w/ SR-IOV support)
FreeBSD 7.x OR laster
DOS
Novell ODI
OS 8 or laster
SCO Open Server
UnixWare / OpenUnix 8
Sun Solaris x86
OS Independent
VMware ESX