- Dual-port pluggable media interface, which can connect to a 10G SFP+ optical transceiver or a copper direct attach cable
- Fully compliant with the SFF-8402 standard
- X8 PCI Express 3.0 compliant
- SR-IOV with up to 128 virtual functions (VFs)
- Function-Level Reset (FLR) support
- TruFlow flow processing engine
- Virtual Network Termination - VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, GRE encap/decap
- VSwitch Acceleration
- Tunnel-aware stateless offloads
- DCB support - PFC, ETS, QCN, DCBx
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI)
- SMBus 2.0
- MCTP over SMBus
- PCIe-based UART and KCS
- Jumbo frames up to 9 KB
- Advanced congestion avoidance
- Multiqueue, NetQueue, and VMQ
- IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
- TCP, UDP, and IP checksum offloads
- Large send offload (LSO)
- Large receive offload (LRO)
- TCP segmentation offload (TSO)
- Receive-side scaling (RSS)
- Transmit-side scaling (TSS)
- VLAN insertion/removal
- Interrupt coalescing
- Network boot - PXE, UEFI
- ISCSI boot
- Wake-on-LAN (WOL)
- MSI and MSI-X
- Conforms to the OCP 3.0 Design Specification Version 1.00
The Broadcom BCM957412N4120C is a dual-port 10 Gb/s PCI Express 3.0 x8 network adapter designed to the Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 Design Specification in small form factor with two SFP+ network connectors. The adapter supports SFP+ optical modules and copper direct attach cables. The network adapter uses the Broadcom BCM57412 25GbE MAC controller with an integrated dual-channel 10GbE SFI transceiver.