Receive Data Path

Call the mac_rx(9F) function in your driver's interrupt handler to pass a chain of one or more packets up the stack to the MAC layer. Avoid holding mutex or other locks during the call to mac_rx(). In particular, do not hold locks that could be taken by a transmit thread during a call to mac_rx(). See mc_unicst(9E) for information about the packets that must be sent up to the MAC layer.

The following sections discuss topics related to sending data to the MAC layer.

Hardware Checksumming: MAC Layer

If the driver specified hardware checksum support (see Hardware Checksum Offload), then the driver must use the mac_hcksum_set(9F) function to associate hardware checksumming metadata with the packet.

Virtual LAN: MAC Layer

VLAN packets must be passed with their tags to the MAC layer. Do not strip the VLAN headers from the packets.