man/man7d/bnxe.7d

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 BNXE 7D "Jul 17, 2014"
 NAME
bnxe - QLogic NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Device Driver

 SYNOPSIS
/dev/bnxe*

 DESCRIPTION

The
 bnxe Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable,
clonable, GLDv3-based driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface,
 dlpi (7P), over QLogic NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers. Multiple
NetXtreme II controllers installed within the system are supported by
the driver.

The
 bnxe driver provides support for the NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit line of devices.
Functions include chip initialization, frame transmit and receive,
multicast and promiscuous support, error recovery and reporting. These
devices provide 10/100/1000/2500/10000 Mbps networking interfaces.

 DRIVER CONFIGURATION

The primary methods of configuration are via modification of the
 /kernel/drv/bnxe.conf file or execution of the
 dladm (1M) utility. There are many configuration items available and all are thoroughly
documented in the
 /kernel/drv/bnxe.conf file. Note that for
changes to this file to take affect the driver must be reloaded or the system
rebooted. In order to reload the driver with new configuration changes all
 bnxe interfaces must be first unplumbed and then the
 update_drv (1M) tool must be executed. For the configuration items that do not require a
driver reload the
 dladm (1M) tool can be used to dynamically change the option.

 DEBUGGING

 kstat

There are many statistics exposed via
 kstat by
 bnxe .
The main groups are:

"intr"
for interrupts stats

"l2chip"
for layer 2 chip stats,

"l2driver"
for layer 2 driver stats,

"l2stats"
for general layer 2 stats,

"link"
for detailed link status,

"mac"
for GLDv3 MAC layer stats,

"rxq#"
for Rx ring stats,

"txq#"
for Tx ring stats, and

"stats"
for general driver stats and version info.

To get a list of all the individual statistics in these goups run:
% kstat -m bnxe -i 0 -l

 FILES
/dev/bnxe[instance]

 bnxe Character special device


/kernel/drv/bnxe.conf

Driver configuration file.


/kernel/drv/bnxe

32-bit i386 driver binary.


/kernel/drv/amd64/bnxe

64-bit i386 driver binary.


/kernel/drv/sparcv9/bnxe

SPARC driver binary.


 SEE ALSO
 dladm (1M),  netstat (1M),  ifconfig (1M),  driver.conf (4),  gld (7P)
 QLogic NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Adapter Driver Installation Notes
 Writing Device Drivers
 STREAMS Programming Guide
 Network Interfaces Guide