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IXV(4)                  NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                 IXV(4)


NAME

     ixv -- Intel 10 giabit Ethernet virtual function


SYNOPSIS

     ixv* at pci? dev ? function ?


DESCRIPTION

     The ixv driver supports Intel 10 gigabit Ethernet virtual function that
     82599 and newer chips support.  It can be used on a NetBSD guest that the
     host supports SR-IOV.


SEE ALSO

     arp(4), ixg(4), netintro(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)


HISTORY

     The ixv device driver comes from FreeBSD.  It first appeared in
     NetBSD 8.0.


AUTHORS

     The ixv driver was written by Intel Corporation
     <freebsdnic@mailbox.intel.com>.


BUGS

     The following event counters are not cleared by SIOCZIFDATA because the
     corresponding registers are read only and not cleared on read:

           Good Packets Received
           Good Octets Received
           Multicast Packets Received
           Good Packets Transmitted
           Good Octets Transmitted


BUGS

     VLAN over ixv won't work because VLAN hardware filter function is not
     currently implemented correctly.

NetBSD 8.2                     September 5, 2019                    NetBSD 8.2