1ixgbe(7D) Devices ixgbe(7D)
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6 ixgbe - Intel 10Gb PCI Express NIC Driver
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13 The ixgbe 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
14 clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the Data Link Provider
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19 The ixgbe driver functions include controller initialization, frame
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24 The ixgbe driver and hardware support auto-negotiation, a protocol
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28 The cloning character-special device, /dev/ixgbe, is used to access all
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33 The ixgbe driver is managed by the dladm(1M) command line utility,
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35 ixgbe instances to be aggregated. See dladm(1M) for more details.
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39 stream with a particular device (PPA). The PPA ID is interpreted as an
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43 ber for the system. The device is initialized on first attach and de-
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74 /dev/ixgbe* Special character device.
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77 /kernel/drv/ixgbe 32-bit device driver (x86).
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86 /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf Configuration file.
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95 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
96 │ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
97 │Availability SUNWixgbe │
98 │Architecture SPARC, x86 │
99 │Interface Stability Committed │
100 └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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120SunOS 5.11 3 Jun 2009 ixgbe(7D)