Intel® IXP42X product line and IXC1100 control plane processors—Ethernet MAC A
Intel® IXP42X Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100 Control Plane Processor
DM September 2006
430 Order Number: 252480-006US
15.2.4 Receive Control 215.2.5 Random Seed
1 Pad strip 1 = Causes the pad bytes to be stripped from receive data.
0Receive
enable 1 = Causes reception to be enabled.
Notes: Broadcast packets will only be dropped if the following three conditions are met.
1. “Broadcast Disable” bit,“b7=1”.
2. The Address Mask register is NOT 00 00 00 00 00 00.
3. “Address Filter Enable” bit, “b5=1”.
Setting the address mask register to all 00 (i.e., don’t care about the address) and setting the Broadcast
Disable bit to “b7=1” will not prevent packets from being accepted. Broadcast packets will continue to be
received. All three conditions shown above must be satisfied to stop receiving packets.
Register Name: rxctrl2
Hex Offset Address: 0xC8009014 Reset Hex Value: 0x00000000
Register
Description: Receive Control Register Two
Access: Read/Write.
31 10
(Reserved)
RX DEF EN
Register rxctrl2
Bits Name Description
31:1 (Reserved)
0Receive
deferral
enable 1 = Enables receive deferral checking.
Register Name: rndmseed
Hex Offset Address: 0xC8009020 Reset Hex Value: 0x00000000
Register
Description: Random Seed Register
Access: Read/Write.
31 87 0
(Reserved) Random Seed
Register rndmseed
Bits Name Description
31:8 (Reserved)
7:0 Random
Seed Random seed used for LFSR initialization in the back-off block.
Register rxcrtl1 (Sheet 2 of 2)
Bits Name Description