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nep
— Sun Neptune
10Gb Ethernet device
nep* at pci?
brgphy* at mii?
The nep
driver provides support for
various NICs based on the Sun Neptune Ethernet controller chips, including
the following:
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:
media
autoselectmedia
1000baseT mediaopt
full-duplexmedia
1000baseT mediaopt
half-duplexmedia
100baseTX mediaopt
full-duplexmedia
100baseTX mediaopt
half-duplexarp(4), brgphy(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), netintro(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
OpenBSD support for
nep
first appeared in OpenBSD
5.7.
The nep
driver was written by
Mark Kettenis
<kettenis@openbsd.org>.
The nep
driver currently only supports 1Gb
Ethernet NICs. It also does not yet use many of the advanced features the
Neptune chip offers.
March 21, 2022 | OpenBSD-current |