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Devices                                                  ntxn(7D)



NAME
     ntxn - NetXen 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet network driver

SYNOPSIS
     /dev/ntxn*


DESCRIPTION
     The ntxn 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet driver is  a  multi-threaded,
     loadable,  clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the
     Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), on NetXen 10/1 Giga-
     bit Ethernet controllers.


     The  ntxn  driver  functions  include  chip  initialization,
     frames  transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast sup-
     port, TCP and UDP checksum off-load (IPv4)  and  9600  bytes
     jumbo frame.


     The ntxn  driver  and  hardware  support  the  10GBASE  CX4,
     10GBASE-SR/W, LR/W, and 10/100/1000BASE-T physical layers.

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
     The cloning character-special device, /dev/ntxn, is used  to
     access all NetXen devices installed within the system.


     The ntxn driver is managed by  the  dladm(1M)  command  line
     utility,  which  allows  VLANs  to be defined on top of ntxn
     instances and for  ntxn  instances  to  be  aggregated.  See
     dladm(1M) for more details.


     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 9600.

         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 broad-
              cast address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF).



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Devices                                                  ntxn(7D)



CONFIGURATION
     By default, the ntxn driver works without any  configuration
     file.

FILES
     /dev/ntxn*                Special character device.


     /kernel/drv/ntxn          32-bit device driver (x86).


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


     /kernel/drv/ntxn.conf     Configuration file.


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



     ____________________________________________________________
    | ATTRIBUTE TYPE                ATTRIBUTE VALUE             |
    | Availability                  driver/network/ntxn         |
    | Architecture                  x86                         |
    | Interface Stability           Committed                   |
    |___________________________________________________________|


SEE ALSO
     dladm(1M),  ndd(1M),  netstat(1M),  driver.conf(4),   attri-
     butes(5), streamio(7I), dlpi(7P)


     Writing Device Drivers


     STREAMS Programming Guide


     Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide












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