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30.Dd August 25, 2008
31.Dt BGE 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm bge
35.Nd Broadcom BCM570x family Gigabit Ethernet driver
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "bge* at pci? dev ? function ?"
38.Pp
39Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary.  See
40.Xr mii 4 .
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44device driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the Broadcom
45BCM570x family of Gigabit Ethernet chips and the BCM5906 chip.
46The interfaces supported by the
47.Nm
48driver include:
49.Bl -bullet
50.It
513Com 3c996-T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
52.It
53Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
54.It
55IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
56.It
57Netgear GA302T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
58.It
59SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
60.It
61SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000BASE-SX)
62.El
63.Pp
64The BCM570x family supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware.
65The
66.Nm
67driver supports this feature of the chip.
68See
69.Xr ifconfig 8
70for information on how to enable this feature.
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr arp 4 ,
73.Xr bce 4 ,
74.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
75.Xr mii 4 ,
76.Xr netintro 4 ,
77.Xr pci 4 ,
78.Xr ifconfig 8
79.Sh HISTORY
80The
81.Nm
82driver first appeared in
83.Nx 1.6.1 .
84.Sh AUTHORS
85.An -nosplit
86The
87.Nm
88driver was written by
89.An Bill Paul
90.Aq wpaul@windriver.com
91for
92.Fx
93and ported to
94.Nx
95by
96.An Frank van der Linden
97.Aq fvdl@wasabisystems.com ,
98.An Jason R. Thorpe
99.Aq thorpej@wasabisystems.com
100and
101.An Jonathan Stone
102.Aq jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu .
103