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diff --git a/share/man/man4/rl.4 b/share/man/man4/rl.4 index 82c485e..30a1a0e 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/rl.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/rl.4 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .Os .Sh NAME .Nm rl -.Nd RealTek 8129/8139/8139C+ fast ethernet device driver +.Nd RealTek 8129/8139 fast ethernet device driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "device miibus" .Cd "device rl" @@ -120,20 +120,9 @@ supports both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex. The 8129 can support the same speeds and modes given an appropriate PHY chip. .Pp -Support is also provided for the special C+ mode of the 8139C+ chip. -By default, the 8139C+ is back backwards compatible with the 8139, but -in C+ mode it supports advanced features such as descriptor-based DMA, -64-bit addressing, TCP/IP checksum offload on both receive and transmit, -hardware VLAN tag insertion and extraction, and TCP large send. -When used with an 8139C+ chip, the -.Nm -driver makes use of all of these features, except for TCP large send, -since there is currently no OS support for it. Transmit interrupt -moderation is also used to improve performance at high frame rates. -The receive and transmit checksum offload capabilities are on by default -but can be toggled off using the -.Xr ifconfig 8 -command. +Note: support for the 8139C+ chip is provided by the +.Xr re 4 +driver. .Pp The .Nm |
