NAME
qe —
SPARC Fast Ethernet
interface
SYNOPSIS
qec* at sbus? slot ? offset ?
qe* at qec?
DESCRIPTION
Theqe 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.