ASUS MCI-1G/350-4T Internal Ethernet 1000 Mbit/s

• Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) with quad-port 1000BASE-T networking
• PCIe 2.0 x4
• Virtualization — Intel® VT-c, SR-IOV and Flexible Port Partitioning(FPP)
• TCP segmentation offload
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• Boot support — PXE and iSCSI boot
• Supports jumbo frames up to 9.5KB
• NC-SI with guaranteed delivery of management traffic

Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) support
MCI-1G/350-4T is designed with enhanced performance features in performance and new power management technology such as Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE).

iSCSI performance acceleration
MCI-1G/350-4T is built on the Intel® I350 controller and supports single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), iSCSI, and TCP segment offload (TSO). Its PCIe2.0 x4 host interface supports 5GT/s per lane and baseboard management controller (BMC) communication is supported on top of the Network Controller-Sideband Interface (NC-SI) via an OCP form factor.

Flexible I/O virtualization
By taking advantage of SR-IOV technology, MCI-1G/350-4T enables Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP), which an administrator can use FPP to control the partitioning of the bandwidth across multiple virtual functions. This enables the assignment of up to eight Linux host processes or virtual machines per port to allow for virtual functions.