Driver for Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet controllers
Syntax:
io-pkt-variant -d rtl8169 [option[,option ...]] ...
where variant is v4-hc or
v6-hc.
Options:
Note:
Use commas, not spaces, to separate the options.
- did=0xXXXX
- The PCI device ID.
- duplex=0|1
- Half (0) or full (1) duplex mode.
The default is automatically detected on supported hardware.
If you specify duplex, specify speed as well;
if duplex alone is specified, it is ignored and both speed and duplex are autonegotiated.
- iftype=num
- The interface type (from <net/if_types.h>).
The default is IFT_ETHER.
- iorange=0xXXXXXXXX
- The I/O base address.
- irq=num
- The IRQ of the interface.
- lan=num
- The LAN number.
The default is 0.
- mac=XXXXXXXXXXXX
- The interface address of the controller.
The default is automatically detected on supported hardware.
- media=num
- The media type (from <hw/nicinfo.h>).
The default is NIC_MEDIA_802_3.
- mru=num
- The maximum receive unit.
The default is 1514.
- mtu=num
- The maximum transmission unit.
The default (1514) is automatically detected on supported hardware.
- nomulticast
- Disable multicast support.
By default, multicast is enabled.
- pci=0xXXXX
- The PCI index of the controller.
- phy=num
- The address of the connected PHY device.
- priority=N
- The priority of the driver's event thread.
The default is 21.
- receive=num
- The number of Rx buffers to internally cache.
The default is 5.
- speed=10|100|1000
- The media data rate in megabits/second.
- transmit=num
- The number of Tx buffers to internally cache.
The default is 10.
- uptype=name
- The interface name.
The default is en.
- verbose or verbose=N
- Be verbose.
Specify num for more verbosity (num can be 1-4;
the higher the number, the more detailed the output).
The default is 0.
The output goes to slogger2;
invoke slog2info to view it.
- vid=0xXXXX
- The PCI vendor ID.
Description:
The devnp-rtl8169.so driver controls
Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
Its interface names are in the form rtX, where
X is an integer.
Some devices support hardware checksums, although some might do so in
only one direction; to determine if your device does, type:
ifconfig enX
and look for the following in the list of supported options:
- ip4csum, ip4csum-rx, ip4csum-tx
- tcp4csum, tcp4csum-rx, tcp4csum-tx
- tcp6csum, tcp6csum-rx, tcp6csum-tx
- udp4csum, udp4csum-rx, udp4csum-tx
- udp6csum, udp6csum-rx, udp6csum-tx
You can then use
ifconfig
to enable or disable whichever of these options your device supports.
Note:
The network drivers don't put entries
into the
/dev namespace, so a
waitfor
command for such an entry won't work properly in buildfiles or scripts.
Use
if_up -p
instead; for example,
if_up -p rt0.
Examples:
Start io-pkt-v4-hc using the Realtek driver:
io-pkt-v4-hc -d rtl8169
ifconfig rt0 10.184