4
5 NAME
6 ixgbe - Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver
7
8 SYNOPSIS
9 /dev/ixgbe*
10
11
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.
17
18
19 The ixgbe driver functions include controller initialization, frame
20 transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, and error
21 recovery and reporting.
22
23
24 The ixgbe driver and hardware support auto-negotiation, a protocol
25 specified by the IEEE 802.3ae specification.
26
27 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
28 The cloning character-special device, /dev/ixgbe, is used to access all
29 Intel 10 -Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet devices installed within the
30 system.
31
32
33 The ixgbe driver is managed by the dladm(1M) command line utility,
34 which allows VLANs to be defined on top of ixgbe instances and for
35 ixgbe instances to be aggregated. See dladm(1M) for more details.
36
37
38 You must send an explicit DL_ATTACH_REQ message to associate the opened
39 stream with a particular device (PPA). The PPA ID is interpreted as an
40 unsigned integer data type and indicates the corresponding device
41 instance (unit) number. The driver returns an error (DL_ERROR_ACK) if
42 the PPA field value does not correspond to a valid device instance
43 number for the system. The device is initialized on first attach and
44 de-initialized (stopped) at last detach.
45
46
47 The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in
48 response to your DL_INFO_REQ are:
49
81
82
83 /kernel/drv/amd64/ixgbe
84 64-bit device driver (x86).
85
86
87 /kernel/drv/sparcv9/ixgbe
88 64-bit device driver (SPARC).
89
90
91 /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf
92 Configuration file.
93
94
95 ATTRIBUTES
96 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
97
98
99
100
101 +--------------------------------------+
102 |ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
103 |Architecture SPARC, x86 |
104 |Interface Stability Committed |
105 +--------------------------------------+
106
107 SEE ALSO
108 dladm(1M), netstat(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), streamio(7I),
109 dlpi(7P)
110
111
112 Writing Device Drivers
113
114
115 STREAMS Programming Guide
116
117
118 Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide
119
120
121 IEEE 802.3ae Specificiation, IEEE - 2002
122
123
124
125 June 3, 2009 IXGBE(7D)
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4
5 NAME
6 ixgbe - Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver
7
8 SYNOPSIS
9 /dev/ixgbe*
10
11
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.
17
18
19 The ixgbe driver functions include controller initialization, frame
20 transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, and error
21 recovery and reporting.
22
23
24 The ixgbe driver supports the following Intel 10-Gigabit PCI Express
25 Ethernet controllers:
26
27 o Intel Ethernet Controller 82598EB Family
28
29 o Intel Ethernet Controller 82599EB (X520) Family
30
31 o Intel Ethernet Controller X540 Family
32
33 o Intel Ethernet Controller X550 Family
34
35 The ixgbe driver and hardware support auto-negotiation, a protocol
36 specified by the IEEE 802.3ae specification.
37
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.
42
43
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.
47
48
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.
56
57
58 The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in
59 response to your DL_INFO_REQ are:
60
92
93
94 /kernel/drv/amd64/ixgbe
95 64-bit device driver (x86).
96
97
98 /kernel/drv/sparcv9/ixgbe
99 64-bit device driver (SPARC).
100
101
102 /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf
103 Configuration file.
104
105
106 ATTRIBUTES
107 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
108
109
110
111
112 +--------------------+-----------------+
113 | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
114 +--------------------+-----------------+
115 |Architecture | SPARC, x86 |
116 +--------------------+-----------------+
117 |Interface Stability | Committed |
118 +--------------------+-----------------+
119
120 SEE ALSO
121 dladm(1M), netstat(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), streamio(7I),
122 dlpi(7P)
123
124
125 Writing Device Drivers
126
127
128 STREAMS Programming Guide
129
130
131 Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide
132
133
134 IEEE 802.3ae Specificiation, IEEE - 2002
135
136
137
138 January 13, 2016 IXGBE(7D)
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