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32.Dd December 10, 2010
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-BCM5709 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
54Dell PowerEdge M710 integrated BCM5709S NIC (1000baseSX)
55.It
56HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
57.It
58HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
59.It
60HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
61.It
62HP NC373i PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
63.It
64HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
65.It
66IBM xSeries 3550 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
67.It
68IBM xSeries 3650 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
69.El
70.Pp
71The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC)
72Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE),
73Remote DMA (RDMA), and iSCSI acceleration,
74in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic,
75all on the same controller.
76The following features are supported in the
77.Nm
78driver under
79.Nx :
80.Bd -literal -offset indent
81IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
82Jumbo frames (up to 9022 bytes)
83VLAN tag insertion
84Interrupt coalescing
8510/100/1000Mbps operation in full-duplex mode
8610/100Mbps operation in half-duplex mode
87.Ed
88.Pp
89The
90.Nm
91driver supports the following media types:
92.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
93.It Cm autoselect
94Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
95The user can manually override
96the autoselected mode via
97.Xr ifconfig 8 .
98.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
99Set 10Mbps operation.
100The
101.Xr ifconfig 8
102.Ic mediaopt
103option can also be used to select either
104.Cm full-duplex
105or
106.Cm half-duplex
107modes.
108.It Cm 100baseTX
109Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
110The
111.Xr ifconfig 8
112.Ic mediaopt
113option can also be used to select either
114.Cm full-duplex
115or
116.Cm half-duplex
117modes.
118.It Cm 1000baseTX
119Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
120Only
121.Cm full-duplex
122mode is supported.
123.It Cm 1000baseSX
124Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
125Both
126.Cm full-duplex
127and
128.Cm half-duplex
129modes are supported.
130.It Cm 2500baseSX
131Set 2500Mbps operation.
132Only
133.Cm full-duplex
134mode is supported.
135.El
136.Pp
137The
138.Nm
139driver supports the following media options:
140.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
141.It Cm full-duplex
142Force full duplex operation.
143.It Cm half-duplex
144Force half duplex operation.
145.El
146.Pp
147For more information on configuring this device, see
148.Xr ifconfig 8 .
149.Sh SEE ALSO
150.Xr arp 4 ,
151.Xr brgphy 4 ,
152.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
153.Xr intro 4 ,
154.Xr mii 4 ,
155.Xr netintro 4 ,
156.Xr pci 4 ,
157.Xr ifconfig 8
158.Sh HISTORY
159The
160.Nm
161device driver first appeared in
162.Nx 4.0 .
163