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:
-
3Com 3c996-T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
-
Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
-
IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
-
Netgear GA302T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
-
SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
-
SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000BASE-SX)
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>.