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6 .TH XGE 7D "Oct 3, 2005"
8 xge \- Neterion Xframe 10Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter driver
18 The \fBxge\fR 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
19 clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider
20 Interface, \fBdlpi\fR(7P), on S2IO Xframe 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter.
23 The \fBxge\fR driver functions includes controller initialization, frame
24 transmit and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, TCP and UDP checksum
25 offload (IPv4 and IPv6), 9622-byte jumbo frame, and error recovery and
29 The \fBxge\fR driver and hardware support the 10GBase-SR/W, LR/W, and ER/W
30 \fI802.3\fR physical layer.
31 .SH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
34 The cloning, character-special device \fB/dev/xge\fR is used to access all
35 Xframe devices installed within the system.
38 The \fBxge\fR driver is managed by the \fBdladm\fR(1M) command line utility,
39 which allows VLANs to be defined on top of xge instances and for \fBxge\fR
40 instances to be aggregated. See \fBdladm\fR(1M) for more details.
43 The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to
44 the DL_INFO_REQ are as follows:
49 Maximum SDU is \fB9600\fR.
55 Minimum SDU is \fB0\fR.
61 \fBDSLAP\fR address length is \fB8\fR bytes.
67 \fBMAC\fR type is \fBDL_ETHER.\fR
73 \fBSAP\fR length value is -2 meaning the physical address component is
74 followed immediately by a 2-byte sap component within the DLSAP address.
80 Broadcast address value is Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address
86 By default, the \fBxge\fR driver works without any configuration file.
89 You can check the running-time status of a device instance using
90 \fBndd\fR(1M). Currently, the driver provides an interface to print all
94 For example, to print statistics of device xge0:
111 rmac_vld_mcst_frms 11
112 rmac_out_rng_len_err_frms 0
113 rmac_in_rng_len_err_frms 0
118 not_traffic_intr_cnt 242673
129 \fB\fB/dev/xge\fR \fR
132 \fBxge\fR special character device
138 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
146 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
153 \fBdladm\fR(1M), \fBndd\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstreamio\fR(7I),
157 \fIWriting Device Drivers\fR
160 \fISTREAMS Programming Guide\fR
163 \fINetwork Interfaces Programmer's Guide\fR