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VTNET(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual VTNET(4) NAME vtnet -- VirtIO Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device vtnet Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): if_vtnet_load="YES" DESCRIPTION The vtnet device driver provides support for VirtIO Ethernet devices. If the hypervisor advertises the appreciate features, the vtnet driver supports TCP/UDP checksum offload for both transmit and receive, TCP seg- mentation offload (TSO), TCP large receive offload (LRO), hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion features, a multicast hash filter, as well as Jumbo Frames (up to 9216 bytes), which can be configured via the inter- face MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). LOADER TUNABLES Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or stored in loader.conf(5). hw.vtnet.csum_disable hw.vtnet.X.csum_disable This tunable disables receive and send checksum offload. The default value is 0. hw.vtnet.tso_disable hw.vtnet.X.tso_disable This tunable disables TSO. The default value is 0. hw.vtnet.lro_disable hw.vtnet.X.lro_disable This tunable disables LRO. The default value is 0. hw.vtnet.mq_disable hw.vtnet.X.mq_disable This tunable disables multiqueue. The default value is 0. hw.vtnet.mq_max_pairs hw.vtnet.X.mq_max_pairs This tunable sets the maximum number of transmit and receive queue pairs. Multiple queues are only supported when the Multi- queue feature is negotiated. This driver supports a maximum of 8 queue pairs. The number of queue pairs used is the lesser of the maximum supported by the driver and the hypervisor, the number of CPUs present in the guest, and this tunable if not zero. The default value is 0. SEE ALSO arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), virtio(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY The vtnet driver was written by Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@FreeBSD.org>. It first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0. CAVEATS The vtnet driver only supports LRO when the hypervisor advertises the mergeable buffer feature. FreeBSD 11.1 January 22, 2012 FreeBSD 11.1
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