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Mention that jumbo frame support is disabled on PCIe VT6130/VT6132
controllers because of TX MAC hangs when trying to send a frame that is larger than 4K (see r200759). PR: docs/156742 Submitted by: Michael Moll (kvedulv at kvedulv dot de) Reviewed by: yongari@ MFC after: 6 days
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 23, 2010
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.Dd May 29, 2011
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.Dt VGE 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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@ -66,13 +66,14 @@ The MAC supports TCP/IP hardware
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checksums (IPv4 only), TCP large send, VLAN tag insertion and stripping,
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as well as VLAN filtering, a 64-entry CAM filter and a 64-entry VLAN filter,
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64-bit multicast hash filter, 4 separate transmit DMA queues, flow control
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and jumbo frames up to 16K in size.
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and jumbo frames (not on VT6130/VT6132) up to 16K in size.
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The Velocity family controllers have a 16K receive FIFO and 48K transmit FIFO.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver takes advantage of the controller's checksum offload and VLAN
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tagging features, as well as the jumbo frame and CAM filter support.
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tagging features, as well as the jumbo frame (except VT6130/VT6132) and CAM
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filter support.
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The CAM filter is used for multicast address filtering to provide
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64 perfect multicast address filter support.
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If it is necessary for the interface to join more than 64 multicast
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The jumbo frame support can be enabled by setting the interface MTU
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to any value larger than the default of 1500 bytes, up to a maximum
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of 9000 bytes.
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Jumbo frames are disabled on the VT6130/VT6132 controllers because the TX
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MAC will hang when trying to send a frame that is larger than 4K.
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The receive and transmit checksum offload support
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can be toggled on and off using the
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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