NAME
be —
SPARC Fast Ethernet
interface
SYNOPSIS
qec* at sbus? slot ? offset ?
be* at qec?
DESCRIPTION
Thebe interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and
100Mb/s (half duplex only) Ethernet networks. The be
is found on the Sun 10/100 Mbit Ethernet boards (Sun part number
SUNW,501-2450).
Each of the host's network addresses is specified at boot time
with an SIOCSIFADDR
ioctl(2). The be interface employs the
address resolution protocol described in
arp(4) to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on
the local network.
The be is not capable of link
autonegotiation, so a media type must be specified with
ifconfig(8). The supported media types are:
- media 100baseTX
- Use 100Mbps, half duplex
- media 10baseT
- Use 10Mbps, half duplex
SEE ALSO
arp(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), netintro(4), sbus(4), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
Support for the be first appeared in
NetBSD 1.4.