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.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2016 $
.Dt XNF 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm xnf
.Nd Xen Netfront networking interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "xnf* at xen?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for a paravirtual networking interface
.Dq Netfront
native to the Xen hypervisor.
.Pp
During attach the
.Nm
driver will ask the hypervisor to switch all configured virtual interfaces
over to the Netfront interface regardless of the VM configuration.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr autoconf 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr xen 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 5.9 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Mike Belopuhov Aq Mt mikeb@openbsd.org
from scratch, inspired by the
.Fx
implementation.