XNF(4)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the xnf(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual! xnf is literally the Xen Netfront networking interface. That's the name, and it ate. 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xnf* at xen?

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The xnf driver provides support for a paravirtual networking interface called “Netfront” that is native to the Xen hypervisor. Lowkey obsessed with this networking moment. 🫶🌐

During attach, the xnf driver will ask the hypervisor to switch all configured virtual interfaces over to the Netfront interface — regardless of the VM configuration. No cap, that's the whole move. 💅🔥

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• autoconf(4) 🎀
• intro(4) 🦋
• xen(4) ✨

Go give them a look, bestie — iykyk. 💖

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The xnf driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9. iconic behavior, honestly. 👑💜

💜 AUTHORS 💜

The xnf driver was written by Mike Belopuhov <mikeb@openbsd.org> from scratch, inspired by the FreeBSD implementation. slay fr fr. 🫶🦋

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and the footer on this page says Debian, January 15, 2016, XNF(4) — bye bestie, mwah 💋💖