• Interrupt moderation: Delivers increased performance while significantly reducing CPU utilization
  
• Plug and play specification support
  
• Integrated media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
  
• Bus speed (x1, encoded rate): 2.5 Gbps uni-directional; 5 Gbps bi-directional
  
• EEPROM-SPI and single EEPROM support
  
• Interrupt levels: INTA
  

  Advanced Software Features:

  
  
• Test switch configuration
  
• TCP checksum offload transmission control protocol (TCP), user datagram protocol (UDP), Internet protocol (IP)
  
• IEEE 802.1p Intel Priority Packet II
  
• TCP segmentation/large send offload
  
• Interrupt moderation
  

Compatibility

• Microsoft Windows Professional, XP, 2000
  
• Red Hat Linux 2.4x or later (32- and 64-bit)
  
• Novell Netware 5.x, 6.x

Certifications & Standards

• RoHS compliant: Compliant with the new European Union directive (effective July 2006) to reduce the use of hazardous materials
  
• PCI Express 1.0a
  
• Hardware certifications: FCC B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, MIC
  

  IEEE:

  
  
• IEEE 802.3
  
• IEEE 802.3u
  
• IEEE 802.3ab
  
• IEEE 802.3z
  

Platform Support

• PC
  
• Linux