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6 .TH NTXN 7D "Oct 13, 2008"
8 ntxn \- NetXen 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet network driver
18 The \fBntxn\fR 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
19 clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface,
20 \fBdlpi\fR(7P), on NetXen 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
23 The \fBntxn\fR driver functions include chip initialization, frames transmit
24 and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, TCP and UDP checksum off-load
25 (IPv4) and 9600 bytes jumbo frame.
28 The \fBntxn\fR driver and hardware support the 10GBASE CX4, 10GBASE-SR/W, LR/W,
29 and 10/100/1000BASE-T physical layers.
30 .SH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
33 The cloning character-special device, \fB/dev/ntxn\fR, is used to access all
34 NetXen devices installed within the system.
37 The \fBntxn\fR driver is managed by the \fBdladm\fR(8) command line utility,
38 which allows VLANs to be defined on top of \fBntxn\fR instances and for
39 \fBntxn\fR instances to be aggregated. See \fBdladm\fR(8) for more details.
42 The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to
60 DLSAP address length is 8.
72 SAP (Service Access Point) length value is -2, meaning the physical address
73 component is followed immediately by a 2-byte SAP component within the DLSAP
80 Broadcast address value is the Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address
86 By default, the \fBntxn\fR driver works without any configuration file.
91 \fB\fB/dev/ntxn*\fR\fR
94 Special character device.
100 \fB\fB/kernel/drv/ntxn\fR\fR
103 32-bit device driver (x86).
109 \fB\fB/kernel/drv/amd64/ntxn\fR\fR
112 64-bit device driver (x86).
118 \fB\fB/kernel/drv/ntxn.conf\fR\fR
127 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
135 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
137 Interface Stability Committed
143 \fBdladm\fR(8), \fBndd\fR(8), \fBnetstat\fR(8), \fBdriver.conf\fR(4),
144 \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstreamio\fR(7I), \fBdlpi\fR(7P)
147 \fIWriting Device Drivers\fR
150 \fISTREAMS Programming Guide\fR
153 \fINetwork Interfaces Programmer's Guide\fR