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5732-8203 - IBM Power6 E4A 10 Gigabit Ethernet-CX4 PCI Express A

Brand: IBM AS400 iSeries
Model Number: 5732-8203

The IBM Power6 8203-E4A (#5732) 10 Gigabit Ethernet-CX4 PCI Express Adapter

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet-CX4 PCI Express Adapter is a low-profile, high performance CX4 copper network interface controller (NIC). The product conforms to the IEEE, 802.3ae 10GBASE-CX specification for Ethernet transmission. 10GBase-CX4 uses the XAUI (10 Gigabit attachment unit interface) specified in 802.3ae, and the 4X connector that is used for InfiniBand technology. The adapter is used to connect servers or switches over short distances of up to 15 meters.

 

Highlights:

 

Implements iWARP RDMA/RDDP (Remote Direct Data Placement) which adheres to IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards. (Linux Only)

RDMA-enabled NIC (RNIC) specifically optimized for cluster computing (Linux Only)

Full iSCSI software and hardware initiator support. (Linux Only)

 

Hardware PDU Offload (Linux Only)

iSCSI Header & Data Digest (CRC) generation & checking ( Linux Only)

Attributes provided:

 

PCIe-V1.1 x8

MSI-X, MSI and support of legacy pin interrupts

10GBASE-CX short-reach copper

IEEE 802.3ae (10 GbE)

IEEE 802.1p priority and 802.1Q VLAN tagging

IEEE 802.3x flow control

Link aggregation, 802.3ad 802.3 compliance

IEEE 802.3ad load-balancing and failover

Ether II and 802.3 encapsulated frames

Multiple MAC addresses per interface

Jumbo frames up to 9.6 Kbytes

TCP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6

TCP segmentation Offload (TSO) for IPv4 and IPv6

UDP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6

Receive side scaling and packet steering

Line rate packet filtering and attack protection

IETF RDDP and RDMAC iWARP compliance (Linux Only)

APIs: RNIC-PI, kDAPL and Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution(OFED) 1.4 (Linux Only)

Attributes provided: PCIe-V1.1 x8 Ethernet

Attributes required: PCIe Express Slot, Copper CX4 Cables, 4x wrap plug

For 8203-E4A: The IBM Power6 8203-E4A (#5732)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 16 (Initial order maximum: 16)

OS level required:

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level, or later

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level, or later

IBM i - not supported

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 or later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.3 or later

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No

Note: Maximum of 4 per processor.

 

Note: Minimum Firmware EM340_063_063 or later.