From 362dfadcf656b48312586f5f8620bd3e9399d687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Semen Ustimenko Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:52:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document recent changes about VLAN support and oversized packets. PR: kern/29235 MFC after: 1 day --- share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4 | 16 ++++++++++++++++ share/man/man4/tx.4 | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+) diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4 index 2b8438ba0cfb..35aac0190870 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4 @@ -67,7 +67,23 @@ driver supports the following media options: Set full-duplex operation .El .Pp +Driver supports oversized ethernet packets (up to 1600 bytes). +Refer to the +.Xr ifconfig 8 +man page on setting interface's MTU. +.Pp The old ``ifconfig tx0 linkN'' method of configuration is not supported. +.Ss VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q) support +The +.Nm +driver supports the VLAN operation (using +.Xr vlan 4 +inteface) without decreasing the MTU on the +.Xr vlan 4 +interfaces. This support must be enabled by adding ``pseudo-device vlan'' +to the kernel configuration file (if compiling staticaly) or inserting +the ``#define NVLAN 1'' line into the sys/modules/tx/vlan.h (if compiling +as KLD) .Sh DIAGNOSTICS .Bl -diag .It "tx%d: device timeout %d packets" diff --git a/share/man/man4/tx.4 b/share/man/man4/tx.4 index 2b8438ba0cfb..35aac0190870 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/tx.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/tx.4 @@ -67,7 +67,23 @@ driver supports the following media options: Set full-duplex operation .El .Pp +Driver supports oversized ethernet packets (up to 1600 bytes). +Refer to the +.Xr ifconfig 8 +man page on setting interface's MTU. +.Pp The old ``ifconfig tx0 linkN'' method of configuration is not supported. +.Ss VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q) support +The +.Nm +driver supports the VLAN operation (using +.Xr vlan 4 +inteface) without decreasing the MTU on the +.Xr vlan 4 +interfaces. This support must be enabled by adding ``pseudo-device vlan'' +to the kernel configuration file (if compiling staticaly) or inserting +the ``#define NVLAN 1'' line into the sys/modules/tx/vlan.h (if compiling +as KLD) .Sh DIAGNOSTICS .Bl -diag .It "tx%d: device timeout %d packets"