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diff --git a/share/man/man4/fwe.4 b/share/man/man4/fwe.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76fc1ac --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/fwe.4 @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Hidetoshi Shimokawa +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED +.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE +.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, +.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES +.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR +.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, +.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN +.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.\" +.Dd July 16, 2005 +.Dt FWE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm fwe +.Nd "Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device firewire" +.Cd "device fwe" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +if_fwe_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides non-standard Ethernet emulation over FireWire (IEEE 1394). +.Pp +.Xr firewire 4 +and +.Xr fwohci 4 +must be configured in the kernel as well. +.Pp +This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEEE 1394 to carry Ethernet +frames. +The stream channel can be specified by +the +.Va hw.firewire.fwe.stream_ch +.Xr sysctl 8 . +.Pp +This driver supports +.Xr polling 4 +as well if it is compiled with the +.Dv DEVICE_POLLING +option. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr firewire 4 , +.Xr fwip 4 , +.Xr fwohci 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr polling 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr kldload 8 , +.Xr sysctl 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver and this manual page were written by +.An Hidetoshi Shimokawa . +.Sh BUGS +This driver emulates Ethernet in a very adhoc way and it does not reserve a +stream channel using an isochronous manager. +Note that this driver uses a protocol which is very different from RFC 2734 +(IPv4 over IEEE 1394). |