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author | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-01 14:50:24 +0000 |
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committer | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-01 14:50:24 +0000 |
commit | b45b9e3cde3c8b803fc2c4fbdb784fc378ced24d (patch) | |
tree | 0b7d3487005ae5a1da0062d675a3bf21249410eb /share/man/man4/sk.4 | |
parent | 46cac19efdca36bb719c540488e5b984e7370eca (diff) | |
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/sk.4 b/share/man/man4/sk.4 index 731d783..5b0cfcd 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/sk.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/sk.4 @@ -56,24 +56,29 @@ SK-9844 SK-NET GE-SX dual port, multimode fiber adapter .El .Pp The SysKonnect adapters consist of two main components: the XaQti Corp. -XMAC II gigabit MAC and the SysKonnect GEnesis controller ASIC. The +XMAC II gigabit MAC and the SysKonnect GEnesis controller ASIC. +The XMAC provides the gigabit MAC and PHY suspport while the GEnesis provides an interface to the PCI bus, DMA support, packet buffering -and arbitration. The GEnesis can control up to two XMACs simultaneously, +and arbitration. +The GEnesis can control up to two XMACs simultaneously, allowing dual-port NIC configurations. .Pp The .Nm driver configures dual port SysKonnect adapters such that each XMAC -is treated as a separate logical network interface. Both ports can +is treated as a separate logical network interface. +Both ports can operate indepenently of each other and can be connected to separate -networks. The SysKonnect driver software currently only uses the +networks. +The SysKonnect driver software currently only uses the second port on dual port adapters for failover purposes: if the link on the primary port fails, the SysKonnect driver will automatically switch traffic onto the second port. .Pp The XaQti XMAC II supports full and half duplex operation with -autonegotiation. The XMAC also supports unlimited frame sizes. +autonegotiation. +The XMAC also supports unlimited frame sizes. Support for jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the .Xr ifconfig 8 @@ -93,7 +98,8 @@ the autoselected mode by adding media options to the .Pa /etc/rc.conf file. .It 1000baseSX -Set 1000Mbps (gigabit ethernet) operation. Both +Set 1000Mbps (gigabit ethernet) operation. +Both .Ar full-duplex and .Ar half-duplex @@ -125,7 +131,8 @@ A fatal initialization error has occurred. The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information during initialization. .It "sk%d: failed to enable memory mapping!" -The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping. This might +The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping. +This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot. .It "sk%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!" The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during |