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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.  The 8842 has 2 Ethernet ports which behave as
43a managed switch to bridge each other.  It works like a T-shape
44connector of Ethernet data flow in which an Ethernet controller
45sits at the leg of the T.  Frames can flow between the two ports
46while traffic destined for the 8842 reaches the EMAC. The 8841 is
47a plain 10/100 Ethernet.
48The
49.Nm
50driver distinguishs and handles them according to the HW model.
51.Sh SEE ALSO
52.Xr arp 4 ,
53.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
54.Xr netintro 4 ,
55.Xr pci 4 ,
56.Xr ifconfig 8
57.Sh AUTHORS
58The
59.Nm
60driver was written by
61.An Tohru Nishimura .
62.Sh BUGS
63__STRICT_ALIGNMENT case is not written.  8842 media selection
64keeps "auto" and indicates "up 100baseTX-FX flow" when either of
65two ports is found link-up.  There is no functional provision to
66see and control the media selection of them this moment.  Advanced
67features like flow volume bound, VLAN tag insertion/removal, QoS
68DiffServ are not implemented and remain uncontrollable by the
69.Nm
70driver.
71UDP4CSUM is not very useful since the HW has an implementation
72error for the case when a large UDP datagram is fragmented into
73MTU sized frames.
74