BFE(4D) Devices BFE(4D)
NAME
bfe - 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(8). The driver supports only those parameters which
begin with en (enabled) in the parameters listed by the command
dladm(8). 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(7) for a description of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------+
|Architecture | SPARC, x86 |
+---------------+-----------------+
SEE ALSO
streamio(4I),
dlpi(4P),
driver.conf(5),
attributes(7),
ieee802.3(7),
dladm(8),
netstat(8) Writing Device Drivers STREAMS Programmer's Guide Network Interface Guide IEEE 802.3ae Specification - 2002 May 21, 2022 BFE(4D)
