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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-12 13:37:56 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-12 13:37:56 +0000
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Document the various link-level flag for these drivers.
2.2 candidate (after typo police :)
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.416
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/sl.415
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4
index 4b814c0..5b37a85 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id: vx.4,v 1.4 1997/03/07 02:49:59 jmg Exp $
.\"
.Dd January 15, 1996
.Dt VX 4 i386
@@ -43,7 +43,19 @@ PCI Ethernet device driver
The
.Nm vx
driver provides support for the 3Com 3c590 and 3c595 EtherLink III and Fast
-EtherLink III PCI Ethernet cards in 10 Mbps mode.
+EtherLink III PCI Ethernet cards in 10 Mbps mode. The medium selection
+can be influenced by the following link flags to the
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+command:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width LINK0X -compact
+.It Em link0
+Use the AUI port.
+.It Em link1
+Use the BNC port.
+.It Em link2
+Use the UTP port.
+.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "vx%d: not configured; kernel is built for only %d devices."
diff --git a/share/man/man4/sl.4 b/share/man/man4/sl.4
index 4d0b5da..9955129 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/sl.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/sl.4
@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@ interface allows serial lines to be used as network interfaces using the
protocol. The
.Nm sl
interface can use Van Jacobson TCP header compression and ICMP filtering.
+This is arranged by using the various link-level flags to the
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+command:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width LINK0X -compact
+.It Em link0
+Enable VJ header compression.
+.It Em link1
+Supress ICMP traffic.
+.It Em link2
+Enable VJ header compression autodetection. This will turn on the
+.Em link0
+flag as soon as the first VJ-compressed packet has been seen by
+the driver.
+.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It sl%d: af%d not supported.
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