xge(4)

xge4

Neterion xframe/xframe ii 10gb ethernet device

Usage

xge* at pci?

Overview

The xge device driver provides support for various NICs based on the Neterion Xframe and Xframe II controller chips, including the following:

  • Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 10GBASE-SR LAN Card (Xframe II)

  • Hitachi PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (Xframe II)

  • HP AB287A 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (Xframe)

  • IBM 10GbE SR Server Adapter (Xframe II)

  • IBM 10 Gb Ethernet-LR PCI-X 2.0 DDR Adapter (Xframe II)

  • IBM 10 Gb Ethernet-SR PCI-X 2.0 DDR Adapter (Xframe II)

  • Neterion/S2io Xframe (Xframe)

  • Neterion Xframe II (Xframe II)

  • Neterion Xframe II Sun Fire (Xframe II)

  • Neterion Xframe E (Xframe II)

  • SGI 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter (Xframe)

The Xframe and Xframe II support IPv4 transmit/receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping.

Releases

42 releases since OpenBSD 4.0; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 4.1
  3. 4.2
  4. 4.3–4.4
  5. 4.5–5.3
  6. 5.4–8.0

History

The xge driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.0.

Authors

The xge driver was written by Anders Magnusson ⟨[email protected]⟩ and ported to OpenBSD by Brad Smith ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.