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37.Dd January 31, 2003
38.Dt BGE 4
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm bge
42.Nd Broadcom BCM570x family Gigabit Ethernet driver
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "bge* at pci? dev ? function ?"
45.Pp
46Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary.  See
47.Xr mii 4 .
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51device driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the Broadcom
52BCM570x family of Gigabit Ethernet chips.
53The interfaces supported by the
54.Nm
55driver include:
56.Bl -bullet
57.It
583Com 3c996-T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
59.It
60Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
61.It
62IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
63.It
64Netgear GA302T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
65.It
66SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
67.It
68SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000BASE-SX)
69.El
70.Pp
71The BCM570x family supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware.
72The
73.Nm
74driver supports this feature of the chip.
75See
76.Xr ifconfig 8
77for information on how to enable this feature.
78.Sh SEE ALSO
79.Xr arp 4 ,
80.Xr bce 4 ,
81.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
82.Xr mii 4 ,
83.Xr netintro 4 ,
84.Xr pci 4 ,
85.Xr ifconfig 8
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Nm
89driver first appeared in
90.Nx 1.6.1 .
91.Sh AUTHORS
92.An -nosplit
93The
94.Nm
95driver was written by
96.An Bill Paul
97.Aq wpaul@windriver.com
98for
99.Fx
100and ported to
101.Nx
102by
103.An Frank van der Linden
104.Aq fvdl@wasabisystems.com ,
105.An Jason R. Thorpe
106.Aq thorpej@wasabisystems.com
107and
108.An Jonathan Stone
109.Aq jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu .
110