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xge(7D) Devices xge(7D) NAME
xge - Neterion Xframe 10Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter driver SYNOPSIS
/dev/xge DESCRIPTION
The xge 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), on S2IO Xframe 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter. The xge driver functions includes controller initialization, frame transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, TCP and UDP checksum offload (IPv4 and IPv6), 9622-byte jumbo frame, and error recovery and reporting. The xge driver and hardware support the 10GBase-SR/W, LR/W, and ER/W 802.3 physical layer. APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
The cloning, character-special device /dev/xge is used to access all Xframe devices installed within the system. The xge driver is managed by the dladm(1M) command line utility, which allows VLANs to be defined on top of xge instances and for xge 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 the DL_INFO_REQ are as follows: o Maximum SDU is 9600. o Minimum SDU is 0. o DSLAP address length is 8 bytes. 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 Broadcast address value is Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF). CONFIGURATION
By default, the xge driver works without any configuration file. You can check the running-time status of a device instance using ndd(1M). Currently, the driver provides an interface to print all hard- ware statistics. For example, to print statistics of device xge0: #ndd /dev/xge0 stats tmac_data_octets 772 tmac_frms 15 tmac_drop_frms 0 tmac_bcst_frms 6 tmac_mcst_frms 6 ... rmac_vld_frms 13 rmac_fcs_err_frms 0 rmac_drop_frms 0 rmac_vld_bcst_frms 7 rmac_vld_mcst_frms 11 rmac_out_rng_len_err_frms 0 rmac_in_rng_len_err_frms 0 rmac_long_frms 0 ... not_traffic_intr_cnt 242673 traffic_intr_cnt 28 ... FILES
/dev/xge xge special character device ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------------------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Architecture x86 | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dladm(1M), ndd(1M), attributes(5), streamio(7I), dlpi(7P) Writing Device Drivers STREAMS Programming Guide Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide SunOS 5.11 3 Oct 2005 xge(7D)
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ixgbe(7D) Devices ixgbe(7D) NAME
ixgbe - Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver SYNOPSIS
/dev/ixgbe* DESCRIPTION
The ixgbe Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), on Intel 82598 10-Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The ixgbe driver functions include controller initialization, frame transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, and error recovery and reporting. The ixgbe driver and hardware support auto-negotiation, a protocol specified by the IEEE 802.3ae specification. APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
The cloning character-special device, /dev/ixgbe, is used to access all Intel 82598 10 -Gigabit Ethernet devices installed within the system. The ixgbe driver is managed by the dladm(1M) command line utility, which allows VLANs to be defined on top of ixgbe instances and for ixgbe instances to be aggregated. See dladm(1M) for more details. You must send an explicit DL_ATTACH_REQ message to associate the opened stream with a particular device (PPA). The PPA ID is interpreted as an unsigned integer data type and indicates the corresponding device instance (unit) number. The driver returns an error (DL_ERROR_ACK) if the PPA field value does not correspond to a valid device instance number for the system. The device is initialized on first attach and de- initialized (stopped) at last detach. The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to your DL_INFO_REQ are: o Maximum SDU is 16366. 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). Once in the DL_ATTACHED state, you must send a DL_BIND_REQ to associate a particular SAP with the stream. CONFIGURATION
By default, the ixgbe driver performs auto-negotiation to select the link speed and mode. Link speed and mode can only be 10000 Mbps full- duplex. See the IEEE802.3 standard for more information. FILES
/dev/ixgbe* Special character device. /kernel/drv/ixgbe 32-bit device driver (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/ixgbe 64-bit device driver (x86). /kernel/drv/sparcv9/ixgbe 64-bit device driver (SPARC). /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf Configuration file. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------------------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability SUNWixgbe | |Architecture SPARC, x86 | |Interface Stability Committed | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dladm(1M), netstat(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), streamio(7I), dlpi(7P) Writing Device Drivers STREAMS Programming Guide Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide IEEE 802.3ae Specificiation, IEEE - 2002 SunOS 5.11 20 Mar 2008 ixgbe(7D)