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/dev/nei
The nei Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, STREAMS hardware driver supporting the connectionless Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), over Novell NE2000 and NE2000plus controllers. The nei driver provides basic support for the NE2000 and NE2000plus hardware. Functions include chip initialization, frame transmit and receive, multicast and "promiscuous" support, and error recovery and reporting. Multiple NE2000 and NE2000plus controllers installed within the system are supported by the driver.
The cloning, character-special device /dev/nei is used to access all NE2000 series devices installed within the system.
The nei driver is dependent on /kernel/misc/gld, a loadable kernel module that provides the nei 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 Service Data Unit (SDU) is 1500 (ETHERMTU - defined in <sys/ethernet.h>).
The minimum SDU is 0. The driver will pad to the mandatory 60-octet minimum packet size.
The dlsap address length is 8.
The Media Access Control (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 nei driver supports the use of shared RAM only on NE2000plus boards. It is important to ensure that there are no conflicts for the board's I/O port, shared RAM , or IRQ level. See the Solaris 2.4 x86 Driver Update Guide for additional restrictions on configuring the NE2000 and other Ethernet cards in the same system.
nei character special device
nei device driver
configuration file of nei driver
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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Architecture | x86 |
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