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17.Dd $Mdocdate: January 4 2009 $
18.Dt VNET 4 sparc64
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm vnet
22.Nd virtual network interface
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "vnet* at cbus?"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28driver provides a network interface using the services provided by the
29UltraSPARC Hypervisor as found on sun4v systems.
30It connects to a virtual switch (vsw) device or virtual network (vnet)
31device in another logical domain using a logical domain channel
32provided by the hypervisor.
33.Pp
34The
35.Nm
36driver supports version 1.0 of the vNet protocol.
37.Pp
38The
39.Nm
40driver supports the following media types:
41.Bl -tag -width autoselect
42.It autoselect
43Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
44The driver always uses the fastest available speed and the media
45options provided by the underlying host of the virtual machine.
46.El
47.Pp
48For more information on configuring this device, see
49.Xr ifconfig 8 .
50.Sh SEE ALSO
51.Xr arp 4 ,
52.Xr cbus 4 ,
53.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
54.Xr intro 4 ,
55.Xr netintro 4 ,
56.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
57.Xr ifconfig 8
58.Sh HISTORY
59The
60.Nm
61driver first appeared in
62.Ox 4.5 .
63.Sh AUTHORS
64The
65.Nm
66driver was written by
67.An Mark Kettenis Aq kettenis@openbsd.org .
68