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.Dd March 27, 2019
.Dt BNX 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bnx
.Nd Broadcom NetXtreme II 10/100/1000 Ethernet device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "bnx* at pci?"
.Cd "brgphy* at mii?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family, such as the
BCM5706 PCI-X and BCM5708-BCM5709-BCM5716 PCIe Ethernet controllers,
which includes the following:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Dell PowerEdge M710 integrated BCM5709S NIC (1000baseSX)
.It
Dell PowerEdge R710 integrated BCM5709 NIC
.It
HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
.It
HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
.It
HP NC371i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
.It
HP NC373F PCIe Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
.It
HP NC373T PCIe Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP NC373i PCIe Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP NC373m Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
.It
HP NC374m PCIe Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP NC380T PCIe Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP NC382T PCIe Dual Port server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP NC382i DP Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
.It
HP NC382m DP 1GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter
.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
.Nx :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
Jumbo frames (up to 9022 bytes)
VLAN tag insertion
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 1000baseTX
Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
Only
.Cm full-duplex
mode is supported.
.It Cm 1000baseSX
Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
Both
.Cm full-duplex
and
.Cm half-duplex
modes are 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 SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr brgphy 4 ,
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr mii 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An David Christensen Aq Mt davidch@broadcom.com
in
.Fx ,
where it is called
.Nm bce .
And it's ported to
.Ox
by
.An Brad Smith Aq Mt brad@openbsd.org .
It's ported to
.Nx
by Quentin Garnier.
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Nx 4.0 .