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32.Dd December 17, 2006
33.Dt BNX 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm bnx
37.Nd Broadcom NetXtreme II 10/100/1000 Ethernet device
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Cd "bnx* at pci?"
40.Cd "brgphy* at mii?"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family, such as the
45BCM5706 PCI-X and BCM5708 PCI Express Ethernet controllers, which
46includes the following:
47.Pp
48.Bl -bullet -compact
49.It
50Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
51.It
52Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
53.It
54HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
55.It
56HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
57.It
58HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
59.It
60HP NC373i PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
61.It
62HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
63.It
64IBM xSeries 3550 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
65.It
66IBM xSeries 3650 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
67.El
68.Pp
69The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC)
70Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE),
71Remote DMA (RDMA), and iSCSI acceleration,
72in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic,
73all on the same controller.
74The following features are supported in the
75.Nm
76driver under
77.Nx :
78.Bd -literal -offset indent
79IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
80Jumbo frames (up to 9022 bytes)
81VLAN tag insertion
82Interrupt coalescing
8310/100/1000Mbps operation in full-duplex mode
8410/100Mbps operation in half-duplex mode
85.Ed
86.Pp
87The
88.Nm
89driver supports the following media types:
90.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
91.It Cm autoselect
92Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
93The user can manually override
94the autoselected mode via
95.Xr ifconfig 8 .
96.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
97Set 10Mbps operation.
98The
99.Xr ifconfig 8
100.Ic mediaopt
101option can also be used to select either
102.Cm full-duplex
103or
104.Cm half-duplex
105modes.
106.It Cm 100baseTX
107Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
108The
109.Xr ifconfig 8
110.Ic mediaopt
111option can also be used to select either
112.Cm full-duplex
113or
114.Cm half-duplex
115modes.
116.It Cm 1000baseTX
117Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
118Only
119.Cm full-duplex
120mode is supported.
121.El
122.Pp
123The
124.Nm
125driver supports the following media options:
126.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
127.It Cm full-duplex
128Force full duplex operation.
129.It Cm half-duplex
130Force half duplex operation.
131.El
132.Pp
133For more information on configuring this device, see
134.Xr ifconfig 8 .
135.Sh SEE ALSO
136.Xr arp 4 ,
137.Xr brgphy 4 ,
138.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
139.Xr intro 4 ,
140.Xr mii 4 ,
141.Xr netintro 4 ,
142.Xr pci 4 ,
143.Xr ifconfig 8
144.Sh HISTORY
145The
146.Nm
147device driver first appeared in
148.Nx 4.0 .
149