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17.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2016 $
18.Dt XNF 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm xnf
22.Nd Xen Netfront networking interface
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "xnf* at xen?"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28driver provides support for a paravirtual networking interface
29.Dq Netfront
30native to the Xen hypervisor.
31.Pp
32During attach the
33.Nm
34driver will ask the hypervisor to switch all configured virtual interfaces
35over to the Netfront interface regardless of the VM configuration.
36.Sh SEE ALSO
37.Xr autoconf 4 ,
38.Xr intro 4 ,
39.Xr xen 4
40.Sh HISTORY
41The
42.Nm
43driver first appeared in
44.Ox 5.9 .
45.Sh AUTHORS
46The
47.Nm
48driver was written by
49.An Mike Belopuhov Aq Mt mikeb@openbsd.org
50from scratch, inspired by the
51.Fx
52implementation.
53