163 lines
4.6 KiB
Groff
163 lines
4.6 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: bnx.4,v 1.3 2010/12/09 23:34:10 jym Exp $
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.\" $OpenBSD: bnx.4,v 1.13 2006/12/15 16:12:52 reyk Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Broadcom Corporation
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.\" David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>. All rights reserved.
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.\" $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/bce.4,v 1.2 2006/04/10 20:12:17 brueffer Exp $
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.Dd December 10, 2010
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.Dt BNX 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm bnx
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.Nd Broadcom NetXtreme II 10/100/1000 Ethernet device
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "bnx* at pci?"
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.Cd "brgphy* at mii?"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family, such as the
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BCM5706 PCI-X and BCM5708-BCM5709 PCI Express Ethernet controllers, which
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includes the following:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
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.It
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Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
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.It
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Dell PowerEdge M710 integrated BCM5709S NIC (1000baseSX)
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.It
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HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
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.It
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HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
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.It
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HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
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.It
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HP NC373i PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
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.It
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HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
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.It
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IBM xSeries 3550 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
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.It
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IBM xSeries 3650 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
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.El
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.Pp
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The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC)
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Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE),
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Remote DMA (RDMA), and iSCSI acceleration,
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in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic,
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all on the same controller.
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The following features are supported in the
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.Nm
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driver under
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.Nx :
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
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Jumbo frames (up to 9022 bytes)
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VLAN tag insertion
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Interrupt coalescing
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10/100/1000Mbps operation in full-duplex mode
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10/100Mbps operation in half-duplex mode
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the following media types:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
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.It Cm autoselect
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Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
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The user can manually override
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the autoselected mode via
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.Xr ifconfig 8 .
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.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
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Set 10Mbps operation.
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The
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Ic mediaopt
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option can also be used to select either
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.Cm full-duplex
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or
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.Cm half-duplex
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modes.
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.It Cm 100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
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The
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Ic mediaopt
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option can also be used to select either
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.Cm full-duplex
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or
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.Cm half-duplex
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modes.
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.It Cm 1000baseTX
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Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
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Only
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.Cm full-duplex
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mode is supported.
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.It Cm 1000baseSX
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Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
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Both
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.Cm full-duplex
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and
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.Cm half-duplex
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modes are supported.
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.It Cm 2500baseSX
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Set 2500Mbps operation.
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Only
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.Cm full-duplex
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mode is supported.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the following media options:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
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.It Cm full-duplex
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Force full duplex operation.
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.It Cm half-duplex
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Force half duplex operation.
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.El
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.Pp
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For more information on configuring this device, see
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.Xr ifconfig 8 .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr arp 4 ,
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.Xr brgphy 4 ,
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.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
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.Xr intro 4 ,
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.Xr mii 4 ,
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.Xr netintro 4 ,
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.Xr pci 4 ,
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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device driver first appeared in
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.Nx 4.0 .
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