ixgb(7d)							      Devices								  ixgb(7d)

NAME

       ixgb - SUNWixgb, 10G Gigabit Ethernet driver for Intel 82597ex controllers and Sun Kirkwood adapters

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/ixgb

DESCRIPTION

       The  ixgb  10Gigabit  Ethernet  driver  is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider
       Interface, DLPI, on Intel 82597ex 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers and Sun 10G Kirkwood adapters. The Intel 10G controller incorporates both
       MAC  and  PHY functions and provides 10G (fiber) Ethernet operation on the SR and LR connectors. The Sun Kirkwood adapter is a 133 MHz PCIX
       10 Gig Ethernet card utilizing the Intel 82597EX PCIX MAC controller with XFP-based 10GigE optics.

       The ixgb driver functions include controller initialization, frame transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support and error recov-
       ery and reporting.

       The ixgb driver and hardware support auto-negotiation, a protocol specified by the 802.ae specification.

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

       The  cloning  character-special device /dev/ixgb is used to access all Intel 10G controllers and Sun Kirkwood adapters installed within the
       system.

       The ixgb driver is dependent on /kernel/misc/gld, a loadable kernel  module that provides the ixgb driver with the DLPI and  STREAMS  func-
       tionality required of a LAN driver. See gld(7D) for more details on supported primitives.

       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 the DL_INFO_REQ are as follows:

	 o  Maximum SDU is 1500 (ETHERMTU - defined in	<sys/ethernet.h>).

	 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  Broadcast address value is 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 Service Access Point (SAP) with the stream.

       By default, the ixgb driver performs auto-negotiation to select the 10G link speed.

FILES

       /dev/ixgb	       ixgb special character device.

       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/ixgbixgb driver binary.

       /kernel/drv/amd64/ixgb  64-bit kernel module (x86 only.)

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC, x86		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5), gld(7D), streamio(7I), dlpi(7P)

       Writing Device Drivers

       STREAMS Programming Guide

       Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide

SunOS 5.10							    1 Dec 2004								  ixgb(7d)