1mxfe(7D) Devices mxfe(7D)
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6 mxfe - MXFE Fast Ethernet device driver
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9 /dev/mxfe*
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13 The mxfe is a Solaris STREAMS hardware driver supporting the Data Link
14 Provider Interface (dlpi(7P)) over the Macronix 98715 family (including
15 the Lite-On PNIC-II) of Fast Ethernet controllers.
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18 The mxfe driver supports both style 1 and style 2 modes of operation.
19 Physical points of attachment (PPAs) are interpreted as the instance
20 number of the mxfe controller as assigned by the operating system.
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23 The relevant fields returned as part of a DL_INFO_ACK response are:
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29 o DLSAP address length is 8.
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31 o MAC type is DL_ETHER.
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33 o SAP length value is -2, meaning the physical address compo‐
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37 o Service mode is DL_CLDLS.
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39 o Broadcast address value is the 6-byte Ethernet/IEEE broad‐
40 cast address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff).
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43 If the SAP provided is zero, IEEE 802.3 mode is assumed and outbound
44 frames will have the frame payload length written into the type field
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46 preted as IEEE 802.3 frames and delivered to streams that have bound to
47 SAP zero (the 802.3 SAP).
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50 /dev/mxfe* Special character device
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53 /kernel/drv/mxfe 32-bit driver binary (x86).
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56 /kernel/drv/amd64/mxfe 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
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59 /kernel/drv/sparcv9/mxfe Driver binary (SPARC).
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63 See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
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68 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
69 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
70 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
71 │Architecture │SPARC, x86 │
72 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
73 │Availability │SUNWmxfe │
74 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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77 ifconfig(1M), ndd(1M), attributes(5), dlpi(7P)
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80 IEEE 802.3 — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2002
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84SunOS 5.11 31 Aug 2007 mxfe(7D)