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IGC				     LOCAL				   IGC

NAME
     igc -- Intel Ethernet Controller I225 driver

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

	   device iflib
	   device igc

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

	   if_igc_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The igc driver provides support for any PCI Express adapter or LOM	(LAN
     On	Motherboard) based on the Intel	I225 Multi Gigabit Controller.	The
     driver supports Transmit/Receive checksum offload,	Jumbo Frames, MSI/MSI-
     X,	TSO, and RSS.

     Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU	setting.  Se-
     lecting an	MTU larger than	1500 bytes with	the ifconfig(8)	utility	con-
     figures the adapter to receive and	transmit Jumbo Frames.	The maximum
     MTU size for Jumbo	Frames is 9216 bytes.

     This driver version supports VLAN hardware	insertion / extraction,	and
     VLAN checksum offload.  For information on	enabling VLANs,	see
     ifconfig(8).  The igc driver supports the following media types:

     autoselect	  Enables auto-negotiation for speed and duplex.

     10baseT/UTP  Sets 10Mbps operation.  Use the mediaopt option to select
		  half-duplex mode.

     100baseTX	  Sets 100Mbps operation.  Use the mediaopt option to select
		  half-duplex mode.

     1000baseT	  Sets 1000Mbps	operation.  Only full-duplex mode is supported
		  at this speed.

     2500baseT	  Sets 2500Mbps	operation.  Only full-duplex mode is supported
		  at this speed.

HARDWARE
     The igc driver supports the following models:

     o	 I225-LM
     o	 I225-V
     o	 I225-IT
     o	 I225-K

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

     hw.igc.igc_disable_crc_stripping
	     Disable or	enable hardware	stripping of CRC field.	 This is
	     mostly useful on BMC/IPMI shared interfaces where stripping the
	     CRC causes	remote access over IPMI	to fail.  Default 0 (enabled).

     hw.igc.rx_int_delay
	     This value	delays the generation of receive interrupts in units
	     of	1.024 microseconds.  The default value is 0, since adapters
	     may hang with this	feature	being enabled.

     hw.igc.rx_abs_int_delay
	     If	hw.igc.rx_int_delay is non-zero, this tunable limits the maxi-
	     mum delay in which	a receive interrupt is generated.

     hw.igc.tx_int_delay
	     This value	delays the generation of transmit interrupts in	units
	     of	1.024 microseconds.  The default value is 64.

     hw.igc.tx_abs_int_delay
	     If	hw.igc.tx_int_delay is non-zero, this tunable limits the maxi-
	     mum delay in which	a transmit interrupt is	generated.

     hw.igc.sbp
	     Show bad packets when in promiscuous mode.	 Default is false.

     hw.igc.rx_process_limit
	     Maximum number of received	packets	to process at a	time.  Default
	     is	100.  A	value of -1 means unlimited.

     hw.igc.eee_setting
	     Disable or	enable Energy Efficient	Ethernet.  Default 1 (dis-
	     abled).

     hw.igc.max_interrupt_rate
	     Maximum device interrupts per second.  The	default	is 8000.

DIAGNOSTICS
     igc%d: Hardware Initialization Failed  A fatal initialization error has
     occurred.

     igc%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory  A fatal initialization
     error has occurred.

     igc%d: Invalid MAC	address	 The MAC address programmed into the EEPROM is
     either empty or a multicast/broadcast address.

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

HISTORY
     The igc device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.

AUTHORS
     The igc was originally written by Intel Corporation and converted to the
     iflib(4) framework	by Netgate.

FreeBSD	13.0			 May 10, 2021			  FreeBSD 13.0

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