NGE(4) | Device Drivers Manual | NGE(4) |
nge
— National
Semiconductor PCI 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
nge* at pci?
nsgphy* at mii?
The nge
driver provides support for
various NICs based on the National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 Gigabit
Ethernet controller chips, including the following:
The nge
driver supports IPv4 receive
IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload, VLAN tag insertion and stripping, as well as a
2048-bit multicast hash filter and up to 4 pattern match buffers.
The nge
driver also supports jumbo
frames.
The nge
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-duplex
modes are supported.1000baseSX
full-duplex
and
half-duplex
modes are supported.The nge
driver supports the following
media options:
full-duplex
half-duplex
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), nsgphy(4), pci(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
National Semiconductor DP83820 datasheet, http://www.national.com.
National Semiconductor DP83861 datasheet, http://www.national.com.
The nge
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.0.
The nge
driver was written by
Bill Paul
<wpaul@bsdi.com>.
September 14, 2014 | OpenBSD-6.4 |