NAME

bge - Broadcom BCM570x family Gigabit Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

bge* at pci? dev ? function ?

Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. See mii(4).

DESCRIPTION

The bge device driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the Broadcom BCM570x family of Gigabit Ethernet chips and the BCM5906 chip. The interfaces supported by the bge driver include:

The BCM570x family supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware. The bge driver supports this feature of the chip. See ifconfig(8) for information on how to enable this feature.

SEE ALSO

arp(4), bce(4), ifmedia(4), mii(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

The bge driver first appeared in NetBSD1.6.1.

AUTHORS

The bge driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com> for FreeBSD and ported to NetBSD by Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>, Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> and Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>.