Chapter 1: Introducing the AT-2973SX, AT-2973T, and AT-2973T/4 Adapters
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Features
The following list of features for the AT-2973SX, AT-2973T, AT-2973T/4
adapters applies to all of the supported operating systems:
TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) offload
Single-chip solution
– Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T transceivers
– 10/100/1000 triple-speed MAC
– Host interfaces
– SerDes interface for optical transceiver
connection
– PCI Express v1.1 x4 and v2.0 compliant (Gigabit
Ethernet)
– Full fast-path TCP offload
Other performance features
– TCP, IP, UDP checksum
– TCP segmentation
– Adaptive interrupts
– Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
Manageability
– Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) 3
diagnostic and configuration software suite
– Supports PXE 2.0 specification (Linux Red
Hat PXE Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server
2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server
2008 R2, Intel APITEST, DOS UNDI)
– Wake on LAN support
– Statistics for Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, and
Ethernet MIB (IEEE Std 802.3z, Clause 30)
