| The Digi International RightSwitch SE-X (dgrs) Device Driver |
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| This is a Linux driver for the Digi International RightSwitch SE-X |
| EISA and PCI boards. These are 4 (EISA) or 6 (PCI) port Ethernet |
| switches and a NIC combined into a single board. This driver can |
| be compiled into the kernel statically or as a loadable module. |
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| There is also a companion management tool, called "xrightswitch". |
| The management tool lets you watch the performance graphically, |
| as well as set the SNMP agent IP and IPX addresses, IEEE Spanning |
| Tree, and Aging time. These can also be set from the command line |
| when the driver is loaded. The driver command line options are: |
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| debug=NNN Debug printing level |
| dma=0/1 Disable/Enable DMA on PCI card |
| spantree=0/1 Disable/Enable IEEE spanning tree |
| hashexpire=NNN Change address aging time (default 300 seconds) |
| ipaddr=A,B,C,D Set SNMP agent IP address i.e. 199,86,8,221 |
| iptrap=A,B,C,D Set SNMP agent IP trap address i.e. 199,86,8,221 |
| ipxnet=NNN Set SNMP agent IPX network number |
| nicmode=0/1 Disable/Enable multiple NIC mode |
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| There is also a tool for setting up input and output packet filters |
| on each port, called "dgrsfilt". |
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| Both the management tool and the filtering tool are available |
| separately from the following FTP site: |
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| ftp://ftp.dgii.com/drivers/rightswitch/linux/ |
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| When nicmode=1, the board and driver operate as 4 or 6 individual |
| NIC ports (eth0...eth5) instead of as a switch. All switching |
| functions are disabled. In the future, the board firmware may include |
| a routing cache when in this mode. |
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| Copyright 1995-1996 Digi International Inc. |
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| This software may be used and distributed according to the terms |
| of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference. |
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| For information on purchasing a RightSwitch SE-4 or SE-6 |
| board, please contact Digi's sales department at 1-612-912-3444 |
| or 1-800-DIGIBRD. Outside the U.S., please check our Web page at: |
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| http://www.dgii.com |
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| for sales offices worldwide. Tech support is also available through |
| the channels listed on the Web site, although as long as I am |
| employed on networking products at Digi I will be happy to provide |
| any bug fixes that may be needed. |
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| -Rick Richardson, rick@dgii.com |
