| bce.4 (183648) | bce.4 (185574) |
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| 1.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Broadcom Corporation 2.\" David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright --- 12 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 21.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 22.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 23.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 24.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 25.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 26.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 27.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" | 1.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Broadcom Corporation 2.\" David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright --- 12 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 21.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 22.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 23.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 24.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 25.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 26.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 27.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" |
| 29.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/bce.4 183648 2008-10-06 18:07:07Z simon $ | 29.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/bce.4 185574 2008-12-03 01:48:19Z delphij $ |
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| 31.Dd June 24, 2007 | 31.Dd December 2, 2008 |
| 32.Dt BCE 4 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm bce | 32.Dt BCE 4 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm bce |
| 36.Nd "Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver" | 36.Nd "Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/5708/5709/5716) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver" |
| 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38To compile this driver into the kernel, 39place the following lines in your 40kernel configuration file: 41.Bd -ragged -offset indent 42.Cd "device miibus" 43.Cd "device bce" 44.Ed 45.Pp 46Alternatively, to load the driver as a 47module at boot time, place the following line in 48.Xr loader.conf 5 : 49.Bd -literal -offset indent 50if_bce_load="YES" 51.Ed 52.Sh DESCRIPTION 53The 54.Nm 55driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family, including the | 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38To compile this driver into the kernel, 39place the following lines in your 40kernel configuration file: 41.Bd -ragged -offset indent 42.Cd "device miibus" 43.Cd "device bce" 44.Ed 45.Pp 46Alternatively, to load the driver as a 47module at boot time, place the following line in 48.Xr loader.conf 5 : 49.Bd -literal -offset indent 50if_bce_load="YES" 51.Ed 52.Sh DESCRIPTION 53The 54.Nm 55driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family, including the |
| 56BCM5706 and BCM5708 Ethernet controllers. | 56BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 and BCM5716 Ethernet controllers. |
| 57.Pp 58The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC) 59Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Remote DMA (RDMA), 60and iSCSI acceleration, in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic, all on the 61same controller. | 57.Pp 58The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC) 59Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Remote DMA (RDMA), 60and iSCSI acceleration, in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic, all on the 61same controller. |
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| 62The following features are supported in the 63.Nm 64driver under 65.Fx : 66.Pp 67.Bl -item -offset indent -compact 68.It 69IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload --- 61 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 131The 132.Nm 133driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom NetXtreme II 134family of Gigabit Ethernet controllers, including the 135following: 136.Pp 137.Bl -bullet -compact 138.It | 63The following features are supported in the 64.Nm 65driver under 66.Fx : 67.Pp 68.Bl -item -offset indent -compact 69.It 70IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload --- 61 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 132The 133.Nm 134driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom NetXtreme II 135family of Gigabit Ethernet controllers, including the 136following: 137.Pp 138.Bl -bullet -compact 139.It |
| 140Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-SX 141.It 142Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T 143.It 144Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX 145.It 146Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T 147.It 148Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX 149.It 150Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T 151.It 152Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T 153.It |
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| 139Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 140.It 141Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 142.It | 154Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 155.It 156Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 157.It |
| 158HP NC370F Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter 159.It |
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| 143HP NC370T Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter 144.It 145HP NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter 146.El 147.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES 148The following variables are available as both 149.Xr sysctl 8 150variables and --- 167 unchanged lines hidden --- | 160HP NC370T Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter 161.It 162HP NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter 163.El 164.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES 165The following variables are available as both 166.Xr sysctl 8 167variables and --- 167 unchanged lines hidden --- |