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Devices                                                 ixgbe(7D)



NAME
     ixgbe - Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver

SYNOPSIS
     /dev/ixgbe*


DESCRIPTION
     The ixgbe 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver  is  a  multi-threaded,
     loadable,  clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the
     Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), on Intel  10-Gigabit
     PCI Express Ethernet controllers.


     The ixgbe driver functions  include  controller  initializa-
     tion,  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  10 -Gigabit PCI Express 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  indi-
     cates  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  primi-
     tive in response to your DL_INFO_REQ are:

         o    Maximum SDU is 16366.

         o    Minimum SDU is 0.

         o    DLSAP address length is 8.



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         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 broad-
              cast 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  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    | ATTRIBUTE TYPE                ATTRIBUTE VALUE             |
    | Availability                  driver/network/ixgbe        |
    | Architecture                  SPARC, x86                  |
    | Interface Stability           Committed                   |
    |___________________________________________________________|


SEE ALSO




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     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









































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