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C H A P T E R
2
Installing and Setting Up the Driver
This chapter explains how to download and install the
nxge
driver. The nxge gigabit
Ethernet driver (
nxge
(7D)) is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, GLD-based
STREAMS driver. The
nxge
driver is managed by the
dladm
(1M) command line
utility, which allows VLANs to be defined on top of
nxge
instances and for
nxge
instances to be aggregated. See the
dladm
(1M) man page for more details on
configuring the data-link interfaces and link aggregations.
This chapter contains the following sections:
■
“Downloading and Installing the Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform” on
page 5
■
“Downloading and Installing the Driver on a Linux Platform” on page 9
Downloading and Installing the Driver
on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform
If your system uses the Solaris SPARC or x86 operating system you will need to
download and install the
nxge
device driver for Solaris platforms.
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To Download the Driver on a Solaris Platform
1. Locate and download the
nxge
device driver software at the following web site:
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/index.html