NGE(4) | Device Drivers Manual | NGE(4) |
nge
— National
Semiconductor PCI 10/100/1Gb 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.
National Semiconductor DP83861 datasheet.
The nge
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.0.
The nge
driver was written by
Bill Paul
<wpaul@bsdi.com>.
February 17, 2022 | OpenBSD-current |