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36.Dd August 25, 2021
37.Dt IXG 4
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm ixg
41.Nd Intel(R) 10Gb Ethernet driver
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "ixg* at pci? dev ? function ?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver provides support for PCI 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on
48the Intel(R) 82598EB, 82599, X540 and X550 Ethernet Controllers.
49The driver supports Jumbo Frames, TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO).
50.Pp
51For questions related to hardware requirements,
52refer to the documentation supplied with your Intel 10GbE adapter.
53All hardware requirements listed apply to use with
54.Nx .
55.Pp
56Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
57Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
58.Xr ifconfig 8
59utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.
60On
61.Nx ,
62the maximum MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 9000 bytes.
63.Pp
64This driver version supports VLANs.
65For information on enabling VLANs, see
66.Xr ifconfig 8 .
67.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
68.Bl -diag
69.It "ixg%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory"
70A fatal initialization error has occurred.
71.It "ixg%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt"
72A fatal initialization error has occurred.
73.It "ixg%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting"
74The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
75the network connection (cable).
76.El
77.Sh SUPPORT
78For general information and support,
79go to the Intel support website at:
80.Lk http://www.intel.com/support/ .
81.\" .Pp
82.\" If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported kernel
83.\" with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the
84.\" issue to
85.\" .Aq freebsdnic@mailbox.intel.com .
86.Sh SEE ALSO
87.Xr arp 4 ,
88.Xr ixv 4 ,
89.Xr netintro 4 ,
90.Xr vlan 4 ,
91.Xr ifconfig 8
92.Sh HISTORY
93The
94.Nm
95device driver comes from
96.Fx ,
97where it is called
98.Nm ixgbe .
99It first appeared in
100.Nx 6.0 .
101.Sh AUTHORS
102.An -nosplit
103The
104.Nm
105driver was written by
106.An Intel Corporation Aq Mt freebsdnic@mailbox.intel.com .
107It was imported from
108.Fx
109into
110.Nx
111by
112.An David Young Aq Mt dyoung@NetBSD.org .
113.Sh BUGS
114The hardware supports a maximum MTU of 16114 bytes, but the
115.Nx
116port of the driver supports only 9000 bytes.
117