MLX4IB(4)

💖 MLX4IB 💖 (the man page, section 4)

okay bestie, welcome to the mlx4ib manual page — that's section 4 of the kernel interfaces manual, and yes, it's giving network adapter energy 🌈

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✨ NAME ✨

mlx4ib — the Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE/40GbE network adapter driver 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

So here's the vibe check on how you get this driver into your life. Three whole paths, pick your fighter:

If you want to compile this driver into the kernel, drop these lines into your kernel configuration file, no cap:

options COMPAT_LINUXKPI
device mlx4
device mlx4ib

If you wanna load it as a module at run-time, run this as root, periodt:

kldload mlx4ib

If you want it loaded as a module at boot time, put this line in loader.conf(5) so it just ✨happens✨ for you:

mlx4ib_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 out there for Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. It's giving main character energy in every one of those rooms, fr fr.

And the way that clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications just thrive on this — they'll achieve significant performance improvements, which means reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. obsessed. 👑

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🌸 HARDWARE 🌸

The mlx4ib driver supports these network adapters, and only these, bestie:

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

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

Need general info or a little support moment? Go to the Mellanox support website at: http://www.mellanox.com/

And if you find an issue with this driver and a supported network adapter, please email the specific information to ⟨freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com⟩ — they wanna know, ngl 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• mlx4en(4)
• ifconfig(8)

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📜 HISTORY 📜

The mlx4ib device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 9.x. iconic behavior honestly ⭐

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

The mlx4ib driver was written by Mellanox Technologies <freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com>. slay 💅

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — and before you go, the lil' sign-off at the bottom: this one comes from Debian, dated March 1, 2017, and it's filed under MLX4IB(4). 🩷 byeee 🧚