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bge
— Broadcom
BCM57xx/BCM590x 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
bge* at pci?
brgphy* at mii?
rgephy* at mii?
The bge
driver provides support for
various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x, 571x, 572x, 575x, 576x, 578x,
5776x and 5778x Gigabit Ethernet controller chips and the 590x and 5779x
Fast Ethernet controller chips, including the following:
The bge
driver supports IPv4 receive
IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and transmit IP/TCP checksum offload, VLAN tag
insertion and stripping, as well as a 256-bit multicast hash filter. The
BCM5717, BCM5718, BCM5723, BCM5754, BCM5755, BCM5761, BCM5764, BCM5784,
BCM5785, BCM5787 and BCM577xx chips also support IPv6 receive TCP/UDP
checksum offload.
The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5703, BCM5704, BCM5714, BCM5717, BCM5719, BCM5720, BCM5762, BCM5780, BCM57765 and BCM57766 chips are capable of supporting jumbo frames.
The bge
driver supports the following
media types:
autoselect
10baseT
mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
full-duplex
or half-duplex
modes.100baseTX
mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
full-duplex
or half-duplex
modes.1000baseT
full-duplex
and half-dupex
modes are supported.1000baseSX
full-duplex
and
half-duplex
modes are supported.The bge
driver supports the following
media options:
full-duplex
half-duplex
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
arp(4), brgphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), rgephy(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
The bge
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.0.
The bge
driver was written by
Bill Paul
<wpaul@windriver.com>.
January 27, 2015 | OpenBSD-6.4 |