IXV(4) Device Drivers Manual IXV(4)

NAME

ixvIntel 10 Gigabit 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:

BUGS

VLAN over ixv won't work because VLAN hardware filter function is not currently implemented correctly.
August 25, 2021 NetBSD 8.3