IBM 5899 Quad-Port Gigabit PCIe x2 P/N:00RX892

IBM FC:5899 FRU:00RX892 PN:02RH403/H0220030000000PW

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IBM 00RX892 Overview

The IBM 00RX892 (Feature Code 5899) is a PCIe Generation 2.0 x4 short form-factor adapter that delivers four high-reliability, wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) ports.

Based on the highly stable and energy-efficient Broadcom BCM5719 controller chipset, this adapter provides cost-effective, high-density network connectivity over standard copper twisted-pair cabling. Each RJ45 interface independently supports 10/100/1000 Mbps auto-negotiation, making it highly versatile for connecting enterprise host systems to legacy switches, storage networks, or administrative management lanes.

(Note: Although sometimes colloquially referred to in legacy listings with varying PCIe lane configurations, the underlying BCM5719 ASIC operates on a native PCIe Gen2 x4 interface).

Technical Specifications

Parameter Specification
IBM Part Number (P/N) 00RX892
IBM Feature Code (FC) 5899
Associated FRU P/Ns 00E2874 / 90Y9353 / 00E2872 (Interchangeable structural equivalents)
Controller Chipset Broadcom BCM5719
Interface / Bus Type PCI Express Gen 2.0 x4 (physically fits in x4, x8, and x16 server slots)
Ports Quad-port (4 x RJ45 copper ports)
Data Rate 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps (Auto-negotiating per port)
Cabling Support Standard Category 5e (Cat5e) or Category 6 (Cat6) UTP
Form Factor Low-profile short card (can be configured with Low-Profile or Full-Height bracket)

Key Features & Protocol Support

  • Port Aggregation & Bonding: Four independent MAC arrays support Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and IEEE 802.3ad. This allows multi-port bonding into a single high-throughput channel to maximize fault tolerance and bandwidth.

  • Virtualization Optimization: Supports Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) to safely bypass the hypervisor layers, reducing host CPU processing overhead in high-density virtualized logical partitions (LPARs).

  • Hardware Offloading Engine:

    • TCP/UDP/IP Stateless Checksum Offload

    • Large Send Offload (LSO) / TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)

    • Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

  • Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE): Compliant with IEEE 802.3az guidelines, significantly lowering idle state power consumption across the server rack layout.

  • Jumbo Frames: Supports framing payloads up to 9 KB, maximizing structural performance for heavy storage replication and continuous database transmissions.

System Compatibility

Supported Hardware

This adapter is widely deployed within scale-out and enterprise-level scale-up rackmount models, including:

  • IBM Power8 Systems: S812, S814, S822, S824, E850, E870, E880

  • IBM Power7 / Power7+ Systems: 710, 720, 730, 740, 750, 770, 780

Operating System Requirements

  • IBM AIX 6.1, AIX 7.1, AIX 7.2, AIX 7.3, or later

  • IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, or later

  • VIOS (Virtual I/O Server) configurations

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 6.2 / 7.0 or later)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 11 / 12 or later)

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