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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS .\"BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR .\"CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF .\"SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS .\"INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN .\"CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) .\"ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF .\"THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/bce.4,v 1.2 2006/04/10 20:12:17 brueffer Exp $ .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: July 3 2009 $ .Dt BNX 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm bnx .Nd Broadcom NetXtreme II 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "bnx* at pci?" .Cd "brgphy* at mii?" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family which is made up of the BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709, and BCM5716 Ethernet controller chips. Products using these controller chips include: .Pp .Bl -bullet -compact .It Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge 2900 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge 2970 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge R410 integrated BCM5716 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge R610 integrated BCM5709 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge R710 integrated BCM5709 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge R805 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge R900 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge R905 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge T410 integrated BCM5716 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It Dell PowerEdge T610 integrated BCM5709 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX) .It HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) .It HP Dual NC370i Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) .It HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX) .It HP NC373i PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) .It HP NC374m PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) .It HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT) .It IBM xSeries 3550 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .It IBM xSeries 3650 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT) .El .Pp The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC) Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Remote DMA (RDMA), and iSCSI acceleration, in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic, all on the same controller. The following features are supported in the .Nm driver under .Ox : .Bd -literal -offset indent IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload .\"Jumbo frames (up to 9022 bytes) VLAN tag insertion and stripping Interrupt coalescing 10/100/1000Mbps operation in full-duplex mode 10/100Mbps operation in half-duplex mode .Ed .Pp The .Nm driver supports the following media types: .Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" .It Cm autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options. The user can manually override the autoselected mode via .Xr ifconfig 8 . .It Cm 10baseT/UTP Set 10Mbps operation. The .Xr ifconfig 8 .Ic mediaopt option can also be used to select either .Cm full-duplex or .Cm half-duplex modes. .It Cm 100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The .Xr ifconfig 8 .Ic mediaopt option can also be used to select either .Cm full-duplex or .Cm half-duplex modes. .It Cm 1000baseT Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair. Only .Cm full-duplex mode is supported. .It Cm 1000baseSX Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. Only .Cm full-duplex mode is supported. .It Cm 2500baseSX Set 2500Mbps operation. Only .Cm full-duplex mode is supported. .El .Pp The .Nm driver supports the following media options: .Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" .It Cm full-duplex Force full duplex operation. .It Cm half-duplex Force half duplex operation. .El .Pp For more information on configuring this device, see .Xr ifconfig 8 . .Sh FILES The adapter needs firmware files to run, which are loaded on demand by the driver when the device is attached: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact .It Pa /etc/firmware/bnx-b06 .It Pa /etc/firmware/bnx-b09 .It Pa /etc/firmware/bnx-rv2p .It Pa /etc/firmware/bnx-xi-rv2p .It Pa /etc/firmware/bnx-xi90-rv2p .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr arp 4 , .Xr brgphy 4 , .Xr ifmedia 4 , .Xr intro 4 , .Xr netintro 4 , .Xr pci 4 , .Xr hostname.if 5 , .Xr ifconfig 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm device driver first appeared in .Ox 4.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was written by .An David Christensen Aq davidch@broadcom.com and ported to .Ox by .An Brad Smith Aq brad@openbsd.org .