Silicom Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet Card PEG4BPI-SD-ROHS same as Dell G3M8K

Silicom Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet Card PEG4BPI-SD-ROHS same as Dell G3M8K

some cards may have the Dell G3M8K number

This card is a Bypass card,

You can read what the manufacturer says (for ref only) on the next few lines, as with most EOL cards please check that a driver is available on the market for you OS. you can visit silicon-USA for more info or go to dell site.

Also note that bypass card is more complex to use that standard NIC, if a card is set for by pass more it may not shoe in Low end systems that don't support the features.

Silicom Gigabit Ethernet Bypass server’s adapter are PCI-Express X4 network interface cards that contains four independent Gigabit ports on one PCI-E adapter.

Silicom’s Gigabit Ethernet Bypass server adapters are designed with optical or copper bypass circuitry in order to provide maximum up time for the network.

Silicom’s Gigabit Ethernet Bypass server adapters can Bypass its Ethernet ports on a host system failure, power off, or upon software request. In Bypass mode, the connections of the Ethernet network ports are disconnected from the interfaces and switched over to the other port to create a crossed connection loop – back between the Ethernet ports.

Hence, in bypass mode all packets received from one port are transmitted to other port and vice versa. This feature enables to bypass a failed system and provides maximum up time for the network. Silicom’s Gigabit Ethernet Bypass server adapters include an on board WDT (Watch Dog Timer) controller.

The adapter’s software drivers or software application can write commands to the on board WDT controller. The adapter’s software drivers, WDT controller and the Bypass circuitry provide an interface that control and manage the mode of the adapter.

Silicom Gigabit Ethernet Bypass server adapters have an integrated hardware acceleration that performs TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload and TCP segmentation.

The host processing offloads accelerators frees CPU for application processing. Silicom’s PEBPI-Series are adapters are based on Intel 82571 / 82546 Dual port Gigabit Ethernet MAC+PHY of Intel Controller.

Grade: Used tested in good working order was kept as a spare but is no longer needed, comes with 90 days warranty.