AGE(4)

AGE(4) | NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual | AGE(4)

# NAME

age — Attansic L1 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device

# SYNOPSIS

age* at pci?
atphy* at mii?

# DESCRIPTION

The age driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the Attansic L1 Ethernet chipset.

The age driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping.

The following media types are supported:

autoselect
  Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT
  Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX
  Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT
  Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.

For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try ifconfig <device> media. For example, ifconfig age0 media.

# SEE ALSO

arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

# HISTORY

The age device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to NetBSD 5.1.

# AUTHORS

The age driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD, ported to OpenBSD by Kevin Lo <kevlo@OpenBSD.org> then ported to NetBSD by Christoph Egger <cegger@NetBSD.org>.

May 5, 2009 | NetBSD 5.99