NAME
qe —
SPARC Fast Ethernet
interface
SYNOPSIS
qec* at sbus? slot ? offset ?
qe* at qec?
DESCRIPTION
The
qe interface provides access to 10Mb/s Ethernet networks
via the AMD Am79C940 (MACE) Ethernet controller. The
qe is
found on the Sun QuadEthernet boards (Sun part number SUNW,501-2062).
Each of the host's network addresses is specified at boot time with an
SIOCSIFADDR
ioctl(2). The
qe interface employs the address resolution protocol
described in
arp(4) to dynamically
map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local network.
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
be(4),
hme(4),
ie(4),
ifmedia(4),
inet(4),
intro(4),
le(4),
netintro(4),
qec(4),
sbus(4),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
Support for the
qe first appeared in
NetBSD
1.4.