5740-8203 - IBM Power6 E4A 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adap

The IBM Power6 8203-E4A (#5740) 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-X Adapter

The 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base -TX PCI-X adapter is a full height PCI-X 1.0a Ethernet adapter which supports four Gigabit ports on a single adapter, delivers increased bandwidth for slot-constrained servers, and is designed to provide high connectivity and reliability using two integrated, dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controllers.

Four RJ-45 ports

3.3 volts, 64-bit 133 MHz with 64-bit Bus Mastering on the PCI-X bus

IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T compliant

IEEE 802.3u 100Base-T compliant

IEEE 802.3 10Base-T compliant

802.1q VLAN tagging

Interrupt Moderation

TCP Segmentation offload and encapsulation in hardware

Checksum offloading of IP, TCP, and UDP frame

Increased connectivity while significantly reducing CPU utilization

Two LED adapter status indicators per port for link activity and speed

NIM is supported on all 4 ports

RoHS compliant

Limit Full bandwidth performance may not be achieved with more than one adapter per PCI Host Bridge (PHB) or more than one CPU.

Attributes provided: Four 10/100/1000 RJ-45 ports

Attributes required: One available PCI-X card slot

For 8203-E4A: The IBM Power6 8203-E4A (#5740)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 16 (Initial order maximum: 16)

OS level required: AIX 5.3 with the 5300-07 Technology Level or later. AIX 6.1 or later. SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for POWER Systems, or later. Red Hat Enterprise LInux for POWER, version 4.5, or later. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for POWER, version 5.1, or later.

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No

Note: Maximum of 2 in CEC under AIX or Linux. System maximum of 16 under AIX or Linux. Not supported under IBM i.