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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst index f1d5233e5e51..1e5f16993f69 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst @@ -440,6 +440,22 @@ NOTE: For 82599-based network connections, if you are enabling jumbo frames in a virtual function (VF), jumbo frames must first be enabled in the physical function (PF). The VF MTU setting cannot be larger than the PF MTU. +NBASE-T Support +--------------- +The ixgbe driver supports NBASE-T on some devices. However, the advertisement +of NBASE-T speeds is suppressed by default, to accommodate broken network +switches which cannot cope with advertised NBASE-T speeds. Use the ethtool +command to enable advertising NBASE-T speeds on devices which support it:: + + ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 + +On Linux systems with INTERFACES(5), this can be specified as a pre-up command +in /etc/network/interfaces so that the interface is always brought up with +NBASE-T support, e.g.:: + + iface eth? inet dhcp + pre-up ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 || true + Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO -------------------------------- The driver supports the in-kernel software implementation of GRO. GRO has @@ -529,13 +545,8 @@ on the Intel Ethernet Controller XL710. Support ======= For general information, go to the Intel support website at: - https://www.intel.com/support/ -or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: - -https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 - If an issue is identified with the released source code on a supported kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the issue -to e1000-devel@lists.sf.net. +to intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org. |