1 IXGBE(7D)                           Devices                          IXGBE(7D)
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   5 NAME
   6        ixgbe - Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver
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   8 SYNOPSIS
   9        /dev/ixgbe*
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  12 DESCRIPTION
  13        The ixgbe 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
  14        clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider
  15        Interface, dlpi(7P), on Intel 10-Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet
  16        controllers.
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  19        The ixgbe driver functions include controller initialization, frame
  20        transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, and error
  21        recovery and reporting.
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  24        The ixgbe driver supports the following Intel 10-Gigabit PCI Express
  25        Ethernet controllers:
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  27            o      Intel Ethernet Controller 82598EB Family
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  29            o      Intel Ethernet Controller 82599EB (X520) Family
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  31            o      Intel Ethernet Controller X540 Family
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  33            o      Intel Ethernet Controller X550 Family
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  35        The ixgbe driver and hardware support auto-negotiation, a protocol
  36        specified by the IEEE 802.3ae specification.
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  38 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
  39        The cloning character-special device, /dev/ixgbe, is used to access all
  40        Intel 10-Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet devices installed within the
  41        system.
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  44        The ixgbe driver is managed by the dladm(1M) command line utility,
  45        which allows VLANs to be defined on top of ixgbe instances and for
  46        ixgbe instances to be aggregated. See dladm(1M) for more details.
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  49        You must send an explicit DL_ATTACH_REQ message to associate the opened
  50        stream with a particular device (PPA). The PPA ID is interpreted as an
  51        unsigned integer data type and indicates the corresponding device
  52        instance (unit) number. The driver returns an error (DL_ERROR_ACK) if
  53        the PPA field value does not correspond to a valid device instance
  54        number for the system. The device is initialized on first attach and
  55        de-initialized (stopped) at last detach.
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  58        The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in
  59        response to your DL_INFO_REQ are:
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  61            o      Maximum SDU is 16366.
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  63            o      Minimum SDU is 0.
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  65            o      DLSAP address length is 8.
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  67            o      MAC type is DL_ETHER.
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  69            o      SAP (Service Access Point) length value is -2, meaning the
  70                   physical address component is followed immediately by a
  71                   2-byte SAP component within the DLSAP address.
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  73            o      Broadcast address value is the Ethernet/IEEE broadcast
  74                   address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF).
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  76                   Once in the DL_ATTACHED state, you must send a DL_BIND_REQ
  77                   to associate a particular SAP with the stream.
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  79 CONFIGURATION
  80        By default, the ixgbe driver performs auto-negotiation to select the
  81        link speed and mode. Link speed and mode can only be 10000 Mbps full-
  82        duplex for fiber, and only 10000, 1000, or 100 Mbps full-duplex for
  83        copper. See the IEEE802.3 standard for more information.
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  85 FILES
  86        /dev/ixgbe*
  87                                     Special character device.
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  90        /kernel/drv/ixgbe
  91                                     32-bit device driver (x86).
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  94        /kernel/drv/amd64/ixgbe
  95                                     64-bit device driver (x86).
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  98        /kernel/drv/sparcv9/ixgbe
  99                                     64-bit device driver (SPARC).
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 102        /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf
 103                                     Configuration file.
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 106 ATTRIBUTES
 107        See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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 112        +--------------------+-----------------+
 113        |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
 114        +--------------------+-----------------+
 115        |Architecture        | SPARC, x86      |
 116        +--------------------+-----------------+
 117        |Interface Stability | Committed       |
 118        +--------------------+-----------------+
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 120 SEE ALSO
 121        dladm(1M), netstat(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), streamio(7I),
 122        dlpi(7P)
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 125        Writing Device Drivers
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 128        STREAMS Programming Guide
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 131        Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide
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 134        IEEE 802.3ae Specificiation, IEEE - 2002
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 138                                January 13, 2016                      IXGBE(7D)