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diff --git a/share/man/man4/epair.4 b/share/man/man4/epair.4 index 4bcb54c936cb..b406c423361b 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/epair.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/epair.4 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd March 18, 2015 +.Dd September 4, 2025 .Dt EPAIR 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -79,12 +79,24 @@ and Like any other Ethernet interface, an .Nm needs to have a network address. -Each +If the tunable +.Va net.link.epair.ether_gen_addr Ns +=0, each .Nm -will be assigned a locally administered address by default, +will be assigned a random locally administered address, that is only guaranteed to be unique within one network stack. -To change the default addresses one may use the SIOCSIFADDR ioctl(2) or -ifconfig(8) utility. +The tunable +.Va net.link.epair.ether_gen_addr Ns +=1 will generate a stable MAC address with +.Fx +OUI using +.Xr ether_gen_addr 9 . +This tunable defaults to 1 in +.Fx 15.0 and might be removed in +.Fx 16.0 . +To change the default addresses one may use the SIOCSIFADDR +.Xr ioctl 2 or +.Xr ifconfig 8 utility. .Pp The basic intent is to provide connectivity between two virtual network stack instances. @@ -96,6 +108,29 @@ As with any other Ethernet interface, can have a .Xr vlan 4 configured on top of it. +.Pp +The +.Nm +has RXCSUM and RXCSUM6 enabled because it may receive a packet where the +checksum has already been validated by a physical interface. +The +.Nm +supports TXCSUM and TXCSUM6 for TCP and UDP, but only by forwarding the order +to compute the checksum. +Thus, when using an +.Nm +interface, a TCP or UDP sender can offload checksum computation +to a physical interface. +Note that, in case the packet does not leave the host, the checksum is +unnecessary and will be ignored if offloaded. +Such packets contain an incorrect checksum, since it is not computed yet. +TXCSUM and TXCSUM6 are synchronized between the +.Nm +interface pair (i.e., enabling/disabling the capability on one end +enables/disables it on the other end). +In case one end is in a bridge and the bridge disabled TXCSUM or TXCSUM6, +this avoids a sender to send packets with checksum offloading into the +bridge by using the other end. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ioctl 2 , .Xr altq 4 , |