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  14 .TH BNXE 7D "Jan 10, 2020"
  15 .SH NAME
  16 bnxe \- QLogic NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Device Driver
  17 
  18 .SH SYNOPSIS
  19 .na
  20 /dev/bnxe*
  21 .ad
  22 
  23 .SH DESCRIPTION
  24 The
  25 .B bnxe
  26 Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
  27 clonable, GLDv3-based driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface,
  28 .BR dlpi (7P),
  29 over QLogic NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers.  Multiple
  30 NetXtreme II controllers installed within the system are supported by
  31 the driver.
  32 
  33 The
  34 .B bnxe
  35 driver provides support for the NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit line of devices.
  36 Functions include chip initialization, frame transmit and receive,
  37 multicast and promiscuous support, error recovery and reporting. These
  38 devices provide 10/100/1000/2500/10000 Mbps networking interfaces.
  39 
  40 .SH DRIVER CONFIGURATION
  41 
  42 The primary methods of configuration are via modification of the
  43 .I /kernel/drv/bnxe.conf
  44 file or execution of the
  45 .BR dladm (1M)
  46 utility. There are many configuration items available and all are thoroughly
  47 documented in the
  48 .I /kernel/drv/bnxe.conf
  49 file. Note that for
  50 changes to this file to take affect the driver must be reloaded or the system
  51 rebooted. In order to reload the driver with new configuration changes all
  52 .B bnxe
  53 interfaces must be first unplumbed and then the
  54 .BR update_drv (1M)
  55 tool must be executed. For the configuration items that do not require a
  56 driver reload the
  57 .BR dladm (1M)
  58 tool can be used to dynamically change the option.
  59 
  60 .SH DEBUGGING
  61 
  62 .SS kstat
  63 
  64 There are many statistics exposed via
  65 .B kstat
  66 by
  67 .BR bnxe .
  68 
  69 The main groups are:
  70 .TP
  71 "intr"
  72 for interrupts stats
  73 .TP
  74 "l2chip"
  75 for layer 2 chip stats,
  76 .TP
  77 "l2driver"
  78 for layer 2 driver stats,
  79 .TP
  80 "l2stats"
  81 for general layer 2 stats,
  82 .TP
  83 "link"
  84 for detailed link status,
  85 .TP
  86 "mac"
  87 for GLDv3 MAC layer stats,
  88 .TP
  89 "rxq#"
  90 for Rx ring stats,
  91 .TP
  92 "txq#"
  93 for Tx ring stats, and
  94 .TP
  95 "stats"
  96 for general driver stats and version info.
  97 .LP
  98 To get a list of all the individual statistics in these groups run:
  99 .na
 100 % kstat -m bnxe -i 0 -l
 101 .ad
 102 
 103 .SH FILES
 104 .ne 2
 105 .na
 106 /dev/bnxe[instance]
 107 .ad
 108 .RS 16n
 109 .B bnxe
 110 Character special device
 111 .RE
 112 
 113 .sp
 114 .ne 2
 115 .na
 116 /kernel/drv/bnxe.conf
 117 .ad
 118 .RS 16n
 119 Driver configuration file
 120 .RE
 121 
 122 .sp
 123 .ne 2
 124 .na
 125 /kernel/drv/amd64/bnxe
 126 .ad
 127 .RS 16n
 128 Device driver (x86)
 129 .RE
 130 
 131 .sp
 132 .ne 2
 133 .na
 134 /kernel/drv/sparcv9/bnxe
 135 .ad
 136 .RS 16n
 137 Device driver (SPARC)
 138 .RE
 139 
 140 .SH SEE ALSO
 141 .BR dladm (1M),
 142 .BR netstat (1M),
 143 .BR ifconfig (1M),
 144 .BR driver.conf (4),
 145 .BR gld (7P)
 146 .LP
 147 .I QLogic NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Adapter Driver Installation Notes
 148 .LP
 149 .I Writing Device Drivers
 150 .LP
 151 .I STREAMS Programming Guide
 152 .LP
 153 .I Network Interfaces Guide