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)