MLX4EN(4)

💖 MLX4EN 💖

okay bestie, so this is the page for mlx4en — that's the Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE/40GbE network adapter driver — and it lives in the Kernel Interfaces Manual, which is honestly giving "the section where all the serious networking stuff hangs out" energy. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

mlx4en — Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE/40GbE network adapter driver

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

So like, you've got options (literally). Wanna bake this driver straight into your kernel? Drop these lines into your kernel configuration file:

options COMPAT_LINUXKPI
device mlx4
device mlx4en

Wanna be chill about it and load it as a module at run-time? Run this as root, no cap:

kldload mlx4en

Orrr if you want it auto-loading at boot time, put this little cutie in loader.conf(5):

mlx4en_load="YES"

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Mellanox ConnectX adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) are literally the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Like, that's the actual pitch, and it's kind of iconic ngl.

Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements — which means reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. ✨ efficiency era ✨

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💅 HARDWARE 💅

The mlx4en driver supports the following network adapters:

• Mellanox ConnectX-2 (ETH)
• Mellanox ConnectX-3 (ETH)

Heads up: that list is the whole list. If your card isn't on it, it's not supported by this driver, periodt. 🙈

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🎀 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 and a supported network adapter, please email the specific information to ⟨freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com⟩. Yes, specific — give them the details, they can't read your mind. 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mlx4ib(4)
• ifconfig(8)

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👑 HISTORY 👑

The mlx4en device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 9.x. vintage but make it fast ⭐

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

The mlx4en driver was written by Mellanox Technologies <freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com>.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 this one's from the Debian build of the manual, dated March 1, 2017 — so yeah, a little retro, but the facts still slay. mwah, go configure your NIC 🫶✨