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NAME
mlx5en — Mellanox ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-4 LX based 100Gb, 50Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb and 10Gb Ethernet adapter
driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
options COMPAT_LINUXKPI
device mlx5
device mlx5en
To load the driver as a module at run-time, run the following command as root:
kldload mlx5en
To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in loader.conf(5):
mlx5en_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The mlx5en driver provides support for PCI Express Ethernet adapters based on ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-4
LX. The driver supports Jumbo Frames, Transmit/Receive checksum offload, TCP segmentation offload (TSO),
Large Receive Offload (LRO), HW Large Receive Offload (HW LRO), VLAN tag insertion/extraction, VLAN
checksum offload, VLAN TSO, and Receive Side Steering (RSS).
The network interface is named mce.
For further hardware information and questions related to hardware requirements, see
http://www.mellanox.com/.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
The mlx5en driver supports 100Gb, 50Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb and 10Gb Ethernet adapters. ConnectX-4
supports:10/20/25/40/50/56/100Gb/s speeds. ConnectX-4 LX supports:10/25/40/50Gb/s speeds (and reduced
power consumption) :
• Mellanox MCX455A-ECAT
• Mellanox MCX456A-ECAT
• Mellanox MCX415A-CCAT
• Mellanox MCX416A-CCAT
• Mellanox MCX455A-FCAT
• Mellanox MCX456A-FCAT
• Mellanox MCX415A-BCAT
• Mellanox MCX416A-BCAT
• Mellanox MCX4131A-GCAT
• Mellanox MCX4131A-BCAT
• Mellanox MCX4121A-ACAT
• Mellanox MCX4111A-ACAT
• Mellanox MCX4121A-XCAT
• Mellanox MCX4111A-XCAT
SUPPORT
For general information and support, go to the Mellanox support website at: http://www.mellanox.com/.
If an issue is identified with this driver with a supported adapter, email all the specific information
related to the issue to ⟨freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com⟩.
SEE ALSO
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The mlx5en device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 11.0.
AUTHORS
The mlx5en driver was written by Mellanox Technologies <freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com>.
Debian December 3, 2015 MLX5EN(4)