NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE | CONFIGURATION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO
/dev/iprb
The iprb Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, STREAMS hardware driver supporting the connectionless Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), over Intel D100/82557 controllers. Multiple 82557 controllers installed within the system are supported by the driver. The iprb driver provides basic support for the 82557 hardware. Functions include chip initialization, frame transmit and receive, multicast support, and error recovery and reporting.
The cloning, character-special device /dev/iprb is used to access all 82557 devices installed within the system.
The iprb driver is dependent on /kernel/misc/gld, a loadable kernel module that provides the iprb driver with the DLPI and STREAMS functionality required of a LAN driver. See gld(7D) for more details on the primatives supported by the driver.
The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to the DL_INFO_REQ from the user are as follows:
The maximum SDU is 1500 (ETHERMTU).
The minimum SDU is 0. The driver will pad to the mandatory 60-octet minimum packet size.
The dlsap address length is 8.
The MAC type is DL_ETHER.
The sap length value is -2, meaning the physical address component is followed immediately by a 2-byte sap component within the DLSAP address.
The broadcast address value is Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF).
The iprb driver does not support the use of shared RAM on the board.
/dev/iprb
character special device
configuration file of iprb driver
<sys/stropts.h> <sys/ethernet.h> <sys/dlpi.h> <sys/gld.h> |
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Architecture | x86 |
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