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30.Dd July 4, 2013
31.Dt BGE 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm bge
35.Nd Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet driver
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "bge* at pci? dev ? function ?"
38.Pp
39Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary.
40See
41.Xr mii 4 .
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x,
46571x, 572x, 575x, 576x, 578x, 5776x and 5778x Gigabit Ethernet controller
47chips and the 590x and 5779x Fast Ethernet controller chips,
48including the following:
49.Pp
50.Bl -bullet -compact
51.It
523Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseT)
53.It
543Com 3c996-SX (1000baseSX)
55.It
563Com 3c996B-T (10/100/1000baseT)
57.It
58Allied-Telesis AT-2972LX10/LC
59.It
60Dell PowerEdge 1750 integrated BCM5704C NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
61.It
62Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
63.It
64Dell PowerEdge 2650 integrated BCM5703 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
65.It
66Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 250/450 LAN (10/100/1000baseT)
67.It
68Fujitsu PW0G8GE1U (1000baseSX)
69.It
70Fujitsu PW0G8GE2U (10/100/1000baseT)
71.It
72Fujitsu PW008GE4 (1000baseSX)
73.It
74Fujitsu PW008GE5 (10/100/1000baseT)
75.It
76Fujitsu PW008QG1U (10/100/1000baseT)
77.It
78HP ProLiant NC320T PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
79.It
80HP ProLiant NC320m PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
81.It
82HP ProLiant NC331T PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
83.It
84HP ProLiant NC332T PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
85.It
86HP ProLiant NC370F PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
87.It
88HP ProLiant NC370T PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
89.It
90HP ProLiant NC1020 PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
91.It
92HP ProLiant NC6770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
93.It
94HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
95.It
96HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
97.It
98HP ProLiant NC7771 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
99.It
100HP ProLiant NC7780 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
101.It
102HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
103.It
104HP ProLiant NC7782 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
105.It
106IBM ThinkPad T43/T43p integrated BCM5751M NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
107.It
108IBM xSeries 235 integrated BCM5703X NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
109.It
110IBM xSeries 305 integrated BCM5703X NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
111.It
112Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseT)
113.It
114SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseT)
115.It
116SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
117.El
118.Pp
119The
120.Nm
121driver supports IPv4 IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offload for receive,
122IP checksum offload for transmit, VLAN tag insertion and stripping,
123as well as a 256-bit multicast hash filter.
124The BCM5717, BCM5718, BCM5723, BCM5754, BCM5755, BCM5761, BCM5764, BCM5784,
125BCM5785, BCM5787 and BCM577xx chips also support IPv6 receive TCP/UDP
126checksum offload.
127The
128.Nm
129driver supports this feature of the chip.
130See
131.Xr ifconfig 8
132for information on how to enable this feature.
133.Pp
134The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5702, BCM5703, BCM5704, BCM5714, BCM5717, BCM5719,
135BCM5720, BCM5780, BCM57765 and BCM57766 also support jumbo frames, which can be
136configured via the
137interface MTU setting.
138Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
139.Xr ifconfig 8
140utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo frames.
141.Pp
142The level of interrupt mitigation for received packets can be adjusted
143with the
144.Li hw.bge.rx_lvl
145.Xr sysctl 8
146control.
147A value of 1 yields a
148.Nm
149interrupt for every two full-sized Ethernet frames.
150Each increment of the value will, roughly, halve receive interrupt rate,
151up to a maximum of 5, which interrupts about every 30 to 40 full-sized
152TCP segments.
153.Pp
154The
155.Nm
156driver supports the following media types:
157.Bl -tag -width 1000baseSX
158.It Cm autoselect
159Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
160The user can manually override
161the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
162.Xr ifconfig.if 5
163file.
164.It Cm 10baseT
165Set 10Mbps operation.
166The
167.Xr ifconfig 8
168.Ic mediaopt
169option can also be used to select either
170.Cm full-duplex
171or
172.Cm half-duplex
173modes.
174.It Cm 100baseTX
175Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
176The
177.Xr ifconfig 8
178.Ic mediaopt
179option can also be used to select either
180.Cm full-duplex
181or
182.Cm half-duplex
183modes.
184.It Cm 1000baseT
185Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair.
186Both
187.Cm full-duplex
188and
189.Cm half-dupex
190modes are supported.
191.It Cm 1000baseSX
192Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
193Both
194.Cm full-duplex
195and
196.Cm half-duplex
197modes are supported.
198.El
199.Pp
200The
201.Nm
202driver supports the following media options:
203.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
204.It Cm full-duplex
205Force full duplex operation.
206.It Cm half-duplex
207Force half duplex operation.
208.El
209.Pp
210For more information on configuring this device, see
211.Xr ifconfig 8 .
212.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
213.Bl -diag
214.It "bge%d: can't find mem space"
215A fatal initialization error has occurred.
216.It "bge%d: couldn't map interrupt"
217A fatal initialization error has occurred.
218.It "bge%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting"
219The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
220the network connection (cable).
221.El
222.Sh SEE ALSO
223.Xr arp 4 ,
224.Xr brgphy 4 ,
225.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
226.Xr mii 4 ,
227.Xr netintro 4 ,
228.Xr pci 4 ,
229.Xr ifconfig 8
230.Sh HISTORY
231The
232.Nm
233driver first appeared in
234.Nx 1.6.1 .
235.Sh AUTHORS
236.An -nosplit
237The
238.Nm
239driver was written by
240.An Bill Paul
241.Aq wpaul@windriver.com
242for
243.Fx
244and ported to
245.Nx
246by
247.An Frank van der Linden
248.Aq fvdl@wasabisystems.com ,
249.An Jason R. Thorpe
250.Aq thorpej@wasabisystems.com
251and
252.An Jonathan Stone
253.Aq jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu .
254