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Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) is a protocol designed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to support communications between different intelligent hardware components that make up a platform management subsystem, providing monitoring and control functions inside a managed computer system. This protocol is independent of the underlying physical bus properties, as well as the "data-link" layer messaging used on the bus. The MCTP communication model includes a message format, transport description, message exchange patterns, and operational endpoint characteristics.[1][2]

MCTP's underlying buses include SMBus / I2C, serial links, PCI Express and USB. Simplified nature of the protocol and reduced encapsulation overheads make MCTP suitable for implementation and processing within system firmwares and integrated baseboard management controllers (BMCs), on a wide range of platforms – including servers, workstations and embedded devices.[1][3][4]

For example, Intel's network interface controllers (NICs) are including support for MCTP over PCI Express and SMBus since 2012, allowing these NICs to be controlled and monitored at a low level over MCTP. Exposed configuration and monitoring operations include power management, control of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) offloading, configuration of the out-of-band management traffic (by using RMCP ports filtering, a separate MAC address, or through VLAN tagging), and handling of NIC's interrupts and error conditions.[3][5][6]

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References

  1. ^ a b Tom Slaight (2007). "Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP)" (PDF). Intel. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  2. ^ Amar Kapadia (2012-06-18). "MCTP: This protocol is a key tool in server management to maximize ROI". networkworld.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  3. ^ a b Eliel Louzoun (2013). "MCTP over PCIe Implementation" (PDF). PCI-SIG. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  4. ^ "Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) Serial Transport Binding" (PDF). DMTF. 2010-07-21. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
  5. ^ "Intel Ethernet Controller I210 Datasheet" (PDF). Intel. 2013. pp. 1, 15, 52, 621–776. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  6. ^ "Intel Ethernet Controller X540 Product Brief" (PDF). Intel. 2012. Retrieved 2014-02-26.


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