Sun Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters

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Configuring ipge and e1000

Driver Parameters

The ipge(1M) device driver controls the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for Solaris SPARC systems. You can manually set the ipge device driver parameters to customize each device in your system.

The e1000 device driver controls the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for Linux (RedHat and SUSE) systems. You can manually set the e1000 device driver parameters to customize each device in your system.

This chapter lists the available device driver parameters and describes how you can set these parameters.

■“Hardware and Software Overview” on page 21

■“Setting ipge Driver Parameters” on page 22

■“Reporting Link Partner Capabilities” on page 30

■“Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Driver Operating Statistics” on page 32

■“Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Device Driver Parameters” on page 34

Hardware and Software Overview

Each of the two ipge channels provides 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, or 1000BASE-T networking interfaces. The device driver automatically sets the link speed to 10, 100, or 1000 Mbit/sec and conforms to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard. The single MAC/PHY chip provides the PCI-E interface and media access control (MAC) functions.

The ipge driver is capable of all the following operating speeds and modes:

■1000 Mbit/sec, full-duplex

■1000 Mbit/sec, half-duplex (not supported)

■100 Mbit/sec, full-duplex

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