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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,
56Accton EN1407-T, Planex GN-1000TE, ARK SOHO GA2000T and GA2500T,
57and other low-cost Gigabit Ethernet
58cards.  It uses an external PHY or an external 10-bit interface.
59.Pp
60The DP83820 supports VLAN tag insertion/removal in hardware.  The
61.Nm
62driver supports this feature of the chip.
63.Pp
64The DP83820 supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware.  The
65.Nm
66driver supports this feature of the chip.  See
67.Xr ifconfig 8
68for information on how to enable this feature.
69.Pp
70The DP83820 chip is a close relative of the DP83815 10/100 Ethernet
71chip, which is supported by the
72.Xr sip 4
73driver, hence the
74.Nm
75name.
76.\" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
77.\" XXX too be done.
78.Sh SEE ALSO
79.Xr arp 4 ,
80.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
81.Xr mii 4 ,
82.Xr netintro 4 ,
83.Xr pci 4 ,
84.Xr vlan 4 ,
85.Xr ifconfig 8
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Nm
89driver first appeared in
90.Nx 1.6 .
91.Sh AUTHORS
92The
93.Nm
94driver was written by
95.An Jason R. Thorpe
96.Aq thorpej@netbsd.org .
97.Sh BUGS
98The
99.Nm
100driver does not support the 10-bit interface, which is required in
101order to support fiber-optic media.
102