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Broadcom NIC (bge)
Sun's 4th generation is the Broadcom GbE NIC, using the “bge” driver (V210/240 series)
Multi-threaded, clonable, Generic LAN Driver (gld) based streams driver
This is the famous one that had the serious problems that delayed the first shipments of the V210 and V240 servers
Notes:
Gld-based device drivers use two sections, a generic part to interface with the streams and the DLPI driver, and another part to deal with the specific hardware.
Does not support QoS and Priority Tagging, but does support VLAN tagging via feature patch. Does NOT support jumbo frames (as shipped)