ntxn(7d) - osol9

1ntxn(7D)                            Devices                           ntxn(7D)
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NAME

6       ntxn - NetXen 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet network driver
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SYNOPSIS

9       /dev/ntxn*
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DESCRIPTION

13       The  ntxn  10/1  Gigabit Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
14       clonable, GLD-based STREAMS driver supporting the  Data  Link  Provider
15       Interface, dlpi(7P), on NetXen 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
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18       The  ntxn driver functions include chip initialization, frames transmit
19       and receive, promiscuous and multicast support, TCP  and  UDP  checksum
20       off-load (IPv4) and 9600 bytes jumbo frame.
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23       The  ntxn  driver  and  hardware support the 10GBASE CX4, 10GBASE-SR/W,
24       LR/W, and 10/100/1000BASE-T physical layers.
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APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

27       The cloning character-special device, /dev/ntxn, is used to access  all
28       NetXen devices installed within the system.
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31       The ntxn driver is managed by the dladm(1M) command line utility, which
32       allows VLANs to be defined on  top  of  ntxn  instances  and  for  ntxn
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36       The  values  returned  by  the  driver  in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in
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47           o      SAP (Service Access Point) length value is -2,  meaning  the
48                  physical  address  component  is  followed  immediately by a
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51           o      Broadcast  address  value  is  the  Ethernet/IEEE  broadcast
52                  address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF).
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CONFIGURATION

55       By default, the ntxn driver works without any configuration file.
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FILES

58       /dev/ntxn*                Special character device.
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61       /kernel/drv/ntxn          32-bit device driver (x86).
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64       /kernel/drv/amd64/ntxn    64-bit device driver (x86).
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67       /kernel/drv/ntxn.conf     Configuration file.
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ATTRIBUTES

71       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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76       ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
77       │ATTRIBUTE TYPE                ATTRIBUTE VALUE              │
78       │Availability                  SUNWntxn                     │
79       │Architecture                  x86                          │
80       │Interface Stability           Committed                    │
81       └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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