NAME
ixg —
Intel(R) 10Gb Ethernet
driver
SYNOPSIS
ixg* at pci? dev ? function ?
DESCRIPTION
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).
DIAGNOSTICS
- ixg%d: Unable to allocate bus resource:
memory
- A fatal initialization error has occurred.
- ixg%d: Unable to allocate bus resource:
interrupt
- A fatal initialization error has occurred.
- ixg%d: watchdog timeout --
resetting
- The device has stopped responding to the network, or there
is a problem with the network connection (cable).
SUPPORT
For general information and support, go to the Intel support website at:
http://www.intel.com/support/.
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
netintro(4),
vlan(4),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The
ixg device driver comes from
FreeBSD, where it is called
ixgbe(4). It first appeared in
NetBSD 6.0.
AUTHORS
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>.
BUGS
The hardware supports a maximum MTU of 16114 bytes, but the
NetBSD port of the driver supports only 9000
bytes.