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30.Dd July 6, 2006
31.Dt KSE 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm kse
35.Nd Micrel 8842/8841 PCI Ethernet controller driver
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "kse* at pci? dev ? function ?"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41driver supports Ethernet interfaces based on the Micrel 8842/8841
42PCI Ethernet chips.
43The 8842 has 2 Ethernet ports which behave as a managed switch to
44bridge each other.
45It works like a T-shape connector of Ethernet data flow in which
46an Ethernet controller sits at the leg of the T.
47Frames can flow between the two ports while traffic destined for
48the 8842 reaches the EMAC.
49The 8841 is a plain 10/100 Ethernet.
50The
51.Nm
52driver distinguishes and handles them according to the HW model.
53.Sh SEE ALSO
54.Xr arp 4 ,
55.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
56.Xr netintro 4 ,
57.Xr pci 4 ,
58.Xr ifconfig 8
59.Sh AUTHORS
60The
61.Nm
62driver was written by
63.An Tohru Nishimura .
64.Sh BUGS
65__STRICT_ALIGNMENT case is not written.
668842 media selection keeps
67.Dq auto
68and indicates
69.Dq up 100baseTX-FX flow
70when either of two ports is found link-up.
71There is no functional provision to see and control the media
72selection of them this moment.
73Advanced features like flow volume bound, VLAN tag insertion/removal,
74QoS DiffServ are not implemented and remain uncontrollable by the
75.Nm
76driver.
77UDP4CSUM is not very useful since the HW has an implementation
78error for the case when a large UDP datagram is fragmented into
79MTU sized frames.
80