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37.Dd June 2, 2001
38.Dt GSIP 4
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm gsip
42.Nd National Semiconductor DP83820 Gigabit Ethernet driver
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "gsip* at pci? dev ? function ?"
45.Pp
46Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary.  See
47.Xr mii 4 .
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51device driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the
52National Semiconductor DP83820 Gigabit Ethernet chips.
53.Pp
54The National Semiconductor DP83820 is found on NetGear GA-622,
55Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX, D-Link DGE-500T, SMC 9452TX and 9462TX, and other
56low-cost Gigabit Ethernet cards.  It uses an external PHY or an external
5710-bit interface.
58.Pp
59The DP83820 supports VLAN tag insertion/removal in hardware.  The
60.Nm
61driver supports this feature of the chip.
62.Pp
63The DP83820 supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware.  The
64.Nm
65driver supports this feature of the chip.  See
66.Xr ifconfig 8
67for information on how to enable this feature.
68.Pp
69The DP83820 chip is a close relative of the DP83815 10/100 Ethernet
70chip, which is supported by the
71.Xr sip 4
72driver, hence the
73.Nm
74name.
75.\" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
76.\" XXX too be done.
77.Sh SEE ALSO
78.Xr arp 4 ,
79.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
80.Xr mii 4 ,
81.Xr netintro 4 ,
82.Xr pci 4 ,
83.Xr vlan 4 ,
84.Xr ifconfig 8
85.Sh HISTORY
86The
87.Nm
88driver first appeared in
89.Nx 1.6 .
90.Sh AUTHORS
91The
92.Nm
93driver was written by
94.An Jason R. Thorpe
95.Aq thorpej@netbsd.org .
96.Sh BUGS
97The
98.Nm
99driver does not support the 10-bit interface, which is required in
100order to support fiber-optic media.
101