bfe(7D) Devices bfe(7D)NAMEbfe - Device driver for Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T NIC
DESCRIPTION
The bfe Fast Ethernet driver is GLD-based and supports the Broadcom
BCM4401 100Base-T NIC adapters :pci14e4,170c Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-
T..
The bfe driver supports IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation, flow control and
VLAN tagging.
Configuration
The default configuration is auto-negotiation with bidirectional flow
control. The advertised capabilities for auto-negotiation are based on
the capabilities of the PHY.
You can set the capabilities advertised by the bfe controlled device
using dladm(1M). The driver supports only those parameters which begin
with en (enabled) in the parameters listed by the command dladm(1M).
Each of these boolean parameters determines if the device advertises
that mode of operation when the hardware supports it.
FILES
/dev/bfe Special character device
/kernel/drv/bfe 32-bit device driver (x86)
/kernel/drv/amd64/bfe 64-bit device driver (x86)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Architecture │SPARC, x86 │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOdladm(1M), netstat(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5), ieee802.3(5),
dlpi(7P), streamio(7I)
Writing Device Drivers
STREAMS Programmer's Guide
Network Interface Guide
IEEE 802.3ae Specification - 2002
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