NAME
nep —
Sun Neptune 10Gb Ethernet
device
SYNOPSIS
nep* at pci?
brgphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The nep driver provides support for
various NICs based on the Sun Neptune Ethernet controller chips, including
the following:
- Sun Quad GbE UTP x8 PCI Express Card
- Sun Quad GbE UTP x8 PCIe ExpressModule
It uses an internal or external PHY or an external 10-bit interface.
The nep driver supports several media
types, which are selected via the
ifconfig(8) command. The supported media types are:
mediaautoselect- Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)
media1000baseTmediaoptfull-duplex- Use 1000baseT on copper, full duplex
media1000baseTmediaopthalf-duplex- Use 1000baseT on copper, half duplex
media100baseTXmediaoptfull-duplex- Use 100baseTX, full duplex
media100baseTXmediaopthalf-duplex- Use 100baseTX, half duplex
SEE ALSO
arp(4), brgphy(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), netintro(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
OpenBSD support for
nep first appeared in OpenBSD
5.7.
AUTHORS
The nep driver was written by
Mark Kettenis
<kettenis@openbsd.org>.
BUGS
The nep driver currently only supports 1Gb
Ethernet NICs. It also does not yet use many of the advanced features the
Neptune chip offers.