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17.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
18.Dt VNET 4 sparc64
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm vnet
22.Nd virtual network interface
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "vnet* at cbus?"
25.Cd "vnet* at vsw?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides a network interface using the services provided by the
30UltraSPARC Hypervisor as found on sun4v systems.
31It connects to a virtual switch (vsw) device or virtual network (vnet)
32device in another logical domain using a logical domain channel
33provided by the hypervisor.
34.Pp
35The
36.Nm
37driver supports version 1.0 of the vNet protocol.
38.Pp
39The
40.Nm
41driver supports the following media types:
42.Bl -tag -width autoselect
43.It autoselect
44Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
45The driver always uses the fastest available speed and the media
46options provided by the underlying host of the virtual machine.
47.El
48.Pp
49For more information on configuring this device, see
50.Xr ifconfig 8 .
51.Sh SEE ALSO
52.Xr arp 4 ,
53.Xr cbus 4 ,
54.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
55.Xr intro 4 ,
56.Xr netintro 4 ,
57.Xr vsw 4 ,
58.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
59.Xr ifconfig 8
60.Sh HISTORY
61The
62.Nm
63driver first appeared in
64.Ox 4.5 .
65.Sh AUTHORS
66The
67.Nm
68driver was written by
69.An Mark Kettenis Aq Mt kettenis@openbsd.org .
70