* Integrated Gigabit Ethernet PHY and MAC functions
* Full/half-duplex and 10/100/1000 Mbps triple-speed operations support
* IEEE802.3ab Auto-Negotiation support
* Automatic detection and correction of cable pair polarity, along with Auto MDI/MDIX cable crossover or pair swap detection
* IEEE 802.3x compliant flow control support for full-duplex operation; Collision-based back-pressure support for half-duplex operation
* IEEE 802.1p Priority Queuing support with 4 classes of priority queues
* IEEE 802.1Q virtual LAN (VLAN) support with 63 BLAN tags
* 64KB deep on-chip Rx and TX packet buffer
* IPv4 TCP, IP and UDP checksum off-loading capability over Rx and TX
* IPv4 TCP segmentation off-loading capability over TX
* Jumbo frame support up to 16KB
* Adaptive interrupt
* Ring type packet descriptor management circuit; Support multiple packet descriptor fetching in a single burst
* Entering Power Saving mode by automatic link speed switching from 1000 Mbps down to 10 or 100 Mbps in standby
* Wake-up from Pre-ACPI and Abnormal Shut-Down
* Hardware and software counters support for traffic statistics gathering
* DMI 2.0 (Desktop Management Interface), WfM 2.0 (Wired for management) compliant
* Advanced packet filtering
* Provide analysis tooling for 1000Base-T type ling over its link quality, cable diagnostics, cable loss, return loss and NEXT loss
* One built-in RJ-45 connector
* Two LED indicators: Link/Activity
* Driver support for: MS Window server 2003/ XP / NT / ME / 2000 / 98SE, Read Hat Linux 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3) or later, Novell Netware 4.2/5.x/6.x/ODI 1.11