mxfe(7D) Devices mxfe(7D)NAMEmxfe - MXFE Fast Ethernet device driver
SYNOPSIS
/dev/mxfe*
DESCRIPTION
The mxfe is a Solaris STREAMS hardware driver supporting the Data Link
Provider Interface (dlpi(7P)) over the Macronix 98715 family (including
the Lite-On PNIC-II) of Fast Ethernet controllers.
DLPI SPECIFICATIONS
The mxfe driver supports both style 1 and style 2 modes of operation.
Physical points of attachment (PPAs) are interpreted as the instance
number of the mxfe controller as assigned by the operating system.
The relevant fields returned as part of a DL_INFO_ACK response are:
o Maximum SDU is 1500.
o Minimum SDU is 0.
o DLSAP address length is 8.
o MAC type is DL_ETHER.
o SAP length value is -2, meaning the physical address compo‐
nent is followed immediately by a 2-byte SAP component
within the DLSAP address.
o Service mode is DL_CLDLS.
o Broadcast address value is the 6-byte Ethernet/IEEE broad‐
cast address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff).
If the SAP provided is zero, IEEE 802.3 mode is assumed and outbound
frames will have the frame payload length written into the type field
Likewise, inbound frames with a SAP between zero and 1500 are inter‐
preted as IEEE 802.3 frames and delivered to streams that have bound to
SAP zero (the 802.3 SAP).
FILES
/dev/mxfe* Special character device
/kernel/drv/mxfe 32-bit driver binary (x86).
/kernel/drv/amd64/mxfe 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/mxfe Driver binary (SPARC).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Architecture │SPARC, x86 │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │driver/network/mxfe │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOifconfig(1M), ndd(1M), attributes(5), dlpi(7P)
IEEE 802.3 — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2002
SunOS 5.11 31 Aug 2007 mxfe(7D)