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ALC(4)			 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual			ALC(4)

NAME
     alc — Atheros AR813x/AR815x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
     kernel configuration file:

	   device miibus
	   device alc

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
     following line in loader.conf(5):

	   if_alc_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The alc device driver provides support for Atheros AR813x and AR815x PCI
     Express Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.

     All LOMs supported by the alc driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for
     transmit, TCP segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag strip‐
     ping/insertion features, Wake On Lan (WOL) and an interrupt moderation
     mechanism as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter.

     The AR813x and AR815x supports Jumbo Frames (up to 9216 and 6144 bytes,
     respectively), which can be configured via the interface MTU setting.
     Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility con‐
     figures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.

     The alc driver supports the following media types:

     autoselect	  Enable autoselection of the media type and options.  The
		  user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding
		  media options to rc.conf(5).

     10baseT/UTP  Set 10Mbps operation.

     100baseTX	  Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.

     1000baseTX	  Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.

     The alc driver supports the following media options:

     full-duplex  Force full duplex operation.

     half-duplex  Force half duplex operation.

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE
     The alc device driver provides support for the following Ethernet con‐
     trollers:

     ·	 Atheros AR8131 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
     ·	 Atheros AR8132 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
     ·	 Atheros AR8151 v1.0 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
     ·	 Atheros AR8151 v2.0 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
     ·	 Atheros AR8152 v1.1 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
     ·	 Atheros AR8152 v2.0 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

LOADER TUNABLES
     Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or
     stored in loader.conf(5).

     hw.alc.msi_disable
	     This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware.  The
	     default value is 0.

     hw.alc.msix_disable
	     This tunable disables MSI-X support on the Ethernet hardware.
	     The default value is 0.

SYSCTL VARIABLES
     The following variables are available as both sysctl(8) variables and
     loader(8) tunables:

     dev.alc.%d.int_rx_mod
	     Maximum amount of time to delay receive interrupt processing in
	     units of 1us.  The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is
	     100(100us).  Value 0 completely disables the interrupt modera‐
	     tion.

     dev.alc.%d.int_tx_mod
	     Maximum amount of time to delay transmit interrupt processing in
	     units of 1us.  The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is
	     1000(1ms).	 Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation.

     dev.alc.%d.process_limit
	     Maximum amount of Rx frames to be processed in the event loop
	     before rescheduling a taskqueue.  The accepted range is 32 to
	     255, the default value is 64 events.  The interface does not need
	     to be brought down and up again before a change takes effect.

SEE ALSO
     altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), vlan(4),
     ifconfig(8)

HISTORY
     The alc driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon ⟨yongari@FreeBSD.org⟩.  It
     first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

BSD				August 9, 2010				   BSD
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