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16The vmxnet3s driver is a paravirtualized GLDv3 NIC driver designed to
17be used on VMware virtual machines version 7 and later.
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19This version of the driver was initially based on the "stable-8.6.x" branch
20of the VMware open-vm-tools which can be obtained from:
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22https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
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24Current changes include:
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26* cstyle and lint cleanup: the driver is lint clean with two categorical
27  exceptions for which warnings are disabled in the Makefile
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29* added support for dladm mtu property
30* added support for VLANs
31* LSO fix contributed by Michael Tsymbalyuk <mtzaurus@gmail.com>
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