mxfe(7D) Devices mxfe(7D)NAME
mxfe - MXFE Fast Ethernet device driver
SYNOPSIS
/dev/mxfe*
DESCRIPTION
The mxfe is a Solaris STREAMS hardware driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface (dlpi(7P)) over the Macronix 98715 family
(including the Lite-On PNIC-II) of Fast Ethernet controllers.
DLPI SPECIFICATIONS
The mxfe driver supports both style 1 and style 2 modes of operation. Physical points of attachment (PPAs) are interpreted as the instance
number of the mxfe controller as assigned by the operating system.
The relevant fields returned as part of a DL_INFO_ACK response are:
o Maximum SDU is 1500.
o Minimum SDU is 0.
o DLSAP address length is 8.
o MAC type is DL_ETHER.
o SAP length value is -2, meaning the physical address component is followed immediately by a 2-byte SAP component within the
DLSAP address.
o Service mode is DL_CLDLS.
o Broadcast address value is the 6-byte Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff).
If the SAP provided is zero, IEEE 802.3 mode is assumed and outbound frames will have the frame payload length written into the type field
Likewise, inbound frames with a SAP between zero and 1500 are interpreted as IEEE 802.3 frames and delivered to streams that have bound to
SAP zero (the 802.3 SAP).
FILES
/dev/mxfe* Special character device
/kernel/drv/mxfe 32-bit driver binary (x86).
/kernel/drv/amd64/mxfe 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/mxfe Driver binary (SPARC).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |SPARC, x86 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWmxfe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ifconfig(1M), ndd(1M), attributes(5), dlpi(7P)
IEEE 802.3 -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2002
SunOS 5.11 31 Aug 2007 mxfe(7D)
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ntxn(7D) Devices ntxn(7D)NAME
ntxn - NetXen 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet network driver
SYNOPSIS
/dev/ntxn*
DESCRIPTION
The ntxn 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider
Interface, dlpi(7P), on NetXen 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
The ntxn driver functions include chip initialization, frames transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, TCP and UDP checksum
off-load (IPv4) and 9600 bytes jumbo frame.
The ntxn driver and hardware support the 10GBASE CX4, 10GBASE-SR/W, LR/W, and 10/100/1000BASE-T physical layers.
APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
The cloning character-special device, /dev/ntxn, is used to access all NetXen devices installed within the system.
The ntxn driver is managed by the dladm(1M) command line utility, which allows VLANs to be defined on top of ntxn instances and for ntxn
instances to be aggregated. See dladm(1M) for more details.
The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to your DL_INFO_REQ are:
o Maximum SDU is 9600.
o Minimum SDU is 0.
o DLSAP address length is 8.
o MAC type is DL_ETHER.
o SAP (Service Access Point) length value is -2, meaning the physical address component is followed immediately by a 2-byte SAP
component within the DLSAP address.
o Broadcast address value is the Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF).
CONFIGURATION
By default, the ntxn driver works without any configuration file.
FILES
/dev/ntxn* Special character device.
/kernel/drv/ntxn 32-bit device driver (x86).
/kernel/drv/amd64/ntxn 64-bit device driver (x86).
/kernel/drv/ntxn.conf Configuration file.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|Availability SUNWntxn |
|Architecture x86 |
|Interface Stability Committed |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
SEE ALSO dladm(1M), ndd(1M), netstat(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), streamio(7I), dlpi(7P)
Writing Device Drivers
STREAMS Programming Guide
Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide
SunOS 5.11 13 Oct 2008 ntxn(7D)