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ixg
— Intel(R)
10Gb Ethernet driver
ixg* at pci? dev ? function ?
The ixg
driver provides support for PCI
10Gb Ethernet adapters based on the Intel(R) 82598EB, 82599, X540 and X550
Ethernet Controllers. The driver supports Jumbo Frames, TCP Segmentation
Offload (TSO).
For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation supplied with your Intel 10GbE adapter. All hardware requirements listed apply to use with NetBSD.
Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames. On NetBSD, the maximum MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 9000 bytes.
This driver version supports VLANs. For information on enabling VLANs, see ifconfig(8).
For general information and support, go to the Intel support website at: http://www.intel.com/support/.
The ixg
device driver comes from
FreeBSD, where it is called
ixgbe
. It first appeared in NetBSD
6.0.
The ixg
driver was written by
Intel Corporation
<freebsdnic@mailbox.intel.com>.
It was imported from FreeBSD into
NetBSD by David Young
<dyoung@NetBSD.org>.
The hardware supports a maximum MTU of 16114 bytes, but the NetBSD port of the driver supports only 9000 bytes.
August 25, 2021 | NetBSD 10.99 |