Kernel and Device Driver Programming

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age

AGE(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    AGE(4)

NAME

     age -- Attansic L1 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS

     age* at pci?
     atphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION

     The age driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the Attansic L1 Ethernet chipset.

     The age driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping.

     The following media types are supported:

     autoselect  Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
     10baseT	 Set 10Mbps operation.
     100baseTX	 Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
     1000baseT	 Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).	To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
     ifconfig <device> media.  For example, ifconfig age0 media.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The age device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5.  It was then ported to NetBSD 5.1.

AUTHORS

     The age driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD, ported to OpenBSD by Kevin Lo <kevlo@OpenBSD.org> then ported to NetBSD by
     Christoph Egger <cegger@NetBSD.org>.

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								    May 5, 2009 							       BSD

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