vmware can also emulate em these days, not just pcn.

remove some verbosity that describes features we dont use or care about.
im an author too.

ok deraadt@

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man4/vic.4 b/share/man/man4/vic.4
index 893f3dbbc2a..c48aa7d1b97 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/vic.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/vic.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: vic.4,v 1.9 2006/11/02 08:21:23 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: vic.4,v 1.10 2006/11/03 02:23:23 dlg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2006 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-driver provides support for the virtual NIC available in virtual
+driver provides support for the VMXnet virtual NIC available in virtual
 machines by VMware.
 It appears as a simple Ethernet device but is actually a virtual network
 interface to the underlying host operating system.
@@ -34,43 +34,15 @@ This driver supports the
 .Ic vmxnet
 driver protocol, as an alternative to the emulated
 .Xr pcn 4
-interface also available in the VMware environment.
+and
+.Xr em 4
+interfaces also available in the VMware environment.
 The
 .Nm vic
 driver is optimized for the virtual machine, it can provide advanced
 capabilities depending on the underlying host operating system and
 the physical network interface controller of the host.
 .Pp
-Unlike the capabilities of physical network interface controllers,
-these capabilities may change after reboot.
-The list of available capabilities is printed by the kernel on
-startup, which could be:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width VLANSW -offset indent -compact
-.It SG
-Transmit scatter-gather lists are supported (required).
-.It CSUM4
-IPv4 TCP/UDP checksum offload is supported (ignored).
-.It CSUM
-IPv4/IPv6/TCP/UDP checksum offload is supported (ignored).
-.It HDMA
-Can map high DMA memory.
-.It TOE
-TCP offload engine available (ignored).
-.It TSO
-TCP segmentation offload supported (ignored).
-.It TSOHW
-Software-based TSO supported (ignored).
-.It VPROM
-Virtual PROM available, used for the MAC address.
-.It VLANTx
-VLAN tagging available (ignored).
-.It VLANRx
-VLAN untagging available (ignored).
-.It VLANSW
-Software-based VLAN tagging on the host (ignored).
-.El
-.Pp
 The
 .Nm
 driver supports the following media types:
@@ -98,14 +70,15 @@ VMware GSX Server 2.5 and newer
 VMware Server
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
-For VMware to add a virtual NIC to a virtual machine, add these
-lines to the vmx configuration file:
+For VMware to add a virtual NIC to a virtual machine, the virtualDev parameter
+on an ethernet device must be specified as "vmxnet":
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
 ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet"
 .Ed
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr arp 4 ,
+.Xr em 4 ,
 .Xr ifmedia 4 ,
 .Xr intro 4 ,
 .Xr netintro 4 ,
@@ -118,4 +91,6 @@ ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet"
 The
 .Nm
 driver was written by
-.An Reyk Floeter Aq reyk@openbsd.org .
+.An Reyk Floeter Aq reyk@openbsd.org
+and
+.An David Gwynne Aq dlg@openbsd.org .