Broadcom BCM957412A / BCM57412 Dual-Port 10Gb, SFP+, PCIe Adapter Network Adapter

• The BCM957412A / BCM57412 network adapter is an Ethernet adapter / chip from Broadcom.
• The BCM957412A4120AC is a dual-port 10 Gb/s network card via PCI-Express Gen3 x8, supporting SFP+ modules.

Technical parameters

Type : Dual-Port 10 Gb/s Ethernet NIC (network card)

Host Interface : PCI Express Gen3 x8

Ports : 2 × SFP+ (optical or DAC)

Support : 10Gb and 1Gb modes (auto-negotiation)

The card uses a chip : BCM57412 (MAC + physical layer / SFI interface)

Jumbo frame support : up to 9,000 bytes (9 KB)

Height / profile : card in standard profile

Advanced offload options/features :
• IPv4 / IPv6 offloads
• TCP / UDP / IP checksum offloads
• Large Send Offload (LSO) / Large Receive Offload (LRO)
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS) / Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
• SR-IOV (virtual function support) up to 128 VFs
• Tunnel virtualization: VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE encap/decap
• RDMA/RoCE (“Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet”) support

Reset and management functions :
• Function Level Reset (FLR)
• Support for PCIe-based UART and KCS interfaces

Physical and electrical parameters :
• Power comes from PCIe connector (12V + additional voltage regulation on the card)