SFXGE(7D) Devices SFXGE(7D)

NAME

sfxgeSolarflare Ethernet device driver

SYNOPSIS

/dev/sfxge

DESCRIPTION

The sfxge driver provides support for 10 and 40 Gbps Ethernet adapters based on the Solarflare SFC9000 family of controllers.

These devices generally support the standard Ethernet features, including autonegotiation, VLANs, and hardware based flow control. The maximum frame size supported by these devices is 9202 bytes, including the tag, if present.

The device driver supports the ieee802.3(5) properties, which can be configured with dladm(1M).

FILES

/dev/sfxge
Special character device.

SEE ALSO

dladm(1M), ifconfig(1M), pci(4), ieee802.3(5), dlpi(7P)

IEEE 802.3: Ethernet, IEEE Standards Association.

April 11, 2016 illumos