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Devices                                                   bfe(7D)



NAME
     bfe - Device driver for Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T NIC

DESCRIPTION
     The bfe Fast Ethernet driver is GLD-based and  supports  the
     Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T NIC adapters :pci14e4,170c Broad-
     com BCM4401 100Base-T..


     The bfe driver supports IEEE  802.3  auto-negotiation,  flow
     control and VLAN tagging.

  Configuration
     The default configuration is auto-negotiation with  bidirec-
     tional  flow  control. The advertised capabilities for auto-
     negotiation are based on the capabilities of the PHY.


     You can set the capabilities  advertised  by  the  bfe  con-
     trolled  device  using  dladm(1M).  The driver supports only
     those parameters which begin with en (enabled) in the param-
     eters listed by the command dladm(1M). Each of these boolean
     parameters determines if the device advertises that mode  of
     operation when the hardware supports it.

FILES
     /dev/bfe                 Special character device


     /kernel/drv/bfe          32-bit device driver (x86)


     /kernel/drv/amd64/bfe    64-bit device driver (x86)


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for a description of the following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    | ATTRIBUTE TYPE              | ATTRIBUTE VALUE             |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Architecture                | SPARC, x86                  |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     dladm(1M),   netstat(1M),   driver.conf(4),   attributes(5),
     ieee802.3(5), dlpi(7P), streamio(7I)




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Devices                                                   bfe(7D)



     Writing Device Drivers


     STREAMS Programmer's Guide


     Network Interface Guide


     IEEE 802.3ae Specification - 2002













































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