Network adapters
The System x3250 M6 supports two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports. The integrated network interface
controller (NIC) has the following features:
An Intel I350-AM2 chip
Two Gigabit Ethernet ports (one port is configured as a dedicated or shared management port)
NIC Teaming (load balancing and failover)
Ethernet features:
Compliant with 1 Gb Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, and 802.3ab PHY specifications
Integrated PHY for 10/100/1000 Mbps for multispeed, full, and half-duplex auto-negotiation
Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)
IEEE 802.3x and 802.3z compliant flow control support with software-controllable Rx
thresholds and Tx pause frames
IEEE 1588 protocol and 802.1AS time synchronization implementation
IEEE802.3az - Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
Full wake up support
Advanced Power Management (APM) support
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification v2.0c
Magic packet wake-up enable
I/O Virtualization Features:
Eight transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) queue pairs per port
Flexible port partitioning: 16 virtual functions (VF) with two ports (8 VFs per port)
Rx/Tx round-robin scheduling
Traffic isolation and traffic steering
Virtual machine (VM) to VM packet forwarding (packet loopback)
MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing
Malicious driver detection
Storm control
Per-pool statistics, off loads, and jumbo support
Independent Function Level Reset (FLR) for physical and virtual functions
IEEE 802.1q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping,
and advanced packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
Mirroring rules
Support for simple VEPA
VF promiscuous modes
Stateless offload and performance features:
TCP/UDP, IPv4 checksum offloads (Rx/ Tx/Large-send); extended Tx descriptors
IPv6 support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP receive checksum offload
Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6)
Transmit Segmentation Offloading (TSO)
Interrupt throttling control
Legacy and Message Signal Interrupt (MSI)
Message Signal Interrupt Extension (MSI-X)
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows
Scalable I/O for Linux environments (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP)
Support for packets up to 9.5 KB (jumbo frames)
Remote boot options
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
Intel iSCSI Remote Boot for Windows, Linux, and VMware
Lenovo System x3250 M6 (Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6, Core i3, Pentium/Celeron G Series Processors)
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