82596CA Datasheet - Intel Corporation

82596CA HIGH-PERFORMANCE 32-BIT LOCAL AREA NETWORK COPROCESSOR

82596 AND HOST CPU INTERACTION 82596 BUS INTERFACE 82596 MEMORY ADDRESSING 82596 SYSTEM MEMORY STRUCTURE TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE MEMORY STRUCTURES TRANSMITTING FRAMES RECEIVING FRAMES 82596 NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND DIAGNOSTICS NETWORK PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE STATION DIAGNOSTICS AND SELFTEST 82586 SOFTW.

82596CA HIGH-PERFORMANCE 32-BIT LOCAL AREA NETWORK COPROCESSOR Y Performs Complete CSMA CD Medium Access Control (MAC) Functions Independently of CPU IEEE 802 3 (EOC) Frame Delimiting Supports Industry Standard LANs IEEE TYPE 10BASE-T IEEE TYPE 10BASE5 (Ethernet ) IEEE TYPE 10BASE2 (Cheapernet) IEEE TYPE 1BASE5 (StarLAN) and the Proposed Standard 10BASE-F Proprietary CSMA CD Networks Up to 20 Mb s On-Chip Memory Management Automatic Buffer Chaining Buffer Reclamation after Receipt of Bad Frames.

82596CA Features

* a monitor mode for network analysis In this mode the 82596CA can capture status bytes and update statistical counters of frames monitored on the link without transferring the contents of the frames to memory This can be done concurrently while transmitting and receiving frames destined for that stat

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