Advanced Solaris 10 Configuration for GbE Devices

The e1000g device driver controls the Sun PCI Express (PCIe) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) device interfaces for Solaris x86 systems.

The following section provides advanced configuration information for setting e1000g driver parameters when running the Solaris 10 operating system and the Sun PCIe GbE MMF ExpressModule (EM).

Setting e1000g Driver Parameters

You can manually configure the e1000g device driver parameters to customize each GbE MMF EM in your system. The following table lists and describes the available e1000g device driver parameters.

Parameter

Status

Description

AutoNegAdvertised

Read and write

Operational mode parameter

ForceSpeedDuplex

Read and write

Operational mode parameter

MaxFrameSize

Read and write

Operational mode parameter

TbiCompatibilityEnable

Read and write

Operational mode parameter

FlowControl

Read and write

Flow control parameter

SetMasterSlave

Read and write

Gigabit link clock mastership controls

NumRxDescriptors

Read and write

Receive performance

NumTxDescriptors

Read and write

Transmit performance

NumRxFreeList

Read and write

Receive performance

MaxNumReceivePackets

Read and write

Receive performance

TxInterruptDelay

Read and write

Transmit interrupt delay values