AGE(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual AGE(4)NAMEage — Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
device miibus
device age
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in loader.conf(5):
if_age_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The age device driver provides support for Attansic/Atheros L1 PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
All LOMs supported by the age driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for
both transmit and receive, hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion features
and an interrupt moderation mechanism as well as a 64-bit multicast hash
filter.
The L1 also supports Jumbo Frames (up to 10240 bytes), which can be con‐
figured via the interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500
bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to receive and
transmit Jumbo Frames.
The age driver supports the following media types:
autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options. The
user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding
media options to rc.conf(5).
10baseT/UTP Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair.
The age driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex Force full duplex operation.
half-duplex Force half duplex operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
The age driver provides support for LOMs based on Attansic/Atheros L1
Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including:
· ASUS M2N8-VMX
· ASUS M2V
· ASUS M3A
· ASUS P2-M2A590G
· ASUS P5B-E
· ASUS P5B-MX/WIFI-AP
· ASUS P5B-VMSE
· ASUS P5K
· ASUS P5KC
· ASUS P5KPL-C
· ASUS P5KPL-VM
· ASUS P5K-SE
· ASUS P5K-V
· ASUS P5L-MX
· ASUS P5DL2-VM
· ASUS P5L-VM 1394
· ASUS G2S
SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following variables are available as sysctl(8) variables:
dev.age%d.int_mod
Maximum amount of time to delay interrupt processing in units of
2us. The accepted range is 0 to 65000, the default is 50
(100us). Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation.
dev.age%d.stats
Display lots of useful MAC counters maintained in the driver.
SEE ALSOaltq(4), arp(4), ifmedia(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4),
vlan(4), ifconfig(8)HISTORY
The age driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon ⟨yongari@FreeBSD.org⟩. It
first appeared in FreeBSD 7.1.
BSD January 2, 2009 BSD