1.\" $NetBSD: be.4,v 1.1 2004/03/31 07:20:48 mrg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net) 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 17.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 18.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, 19.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 20.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 21.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 23.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN 24.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 25.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" from: OpenBSD: be.4,v 1.13 2003/06/02 18:51:34 jason Exp 28.\" 29.Dd March 31, 2004 30.Dt BE 4 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm be 34.Nd SPARC Fast Ethernet interface 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36.Cd "qec* at sbus? slot ? offset ?" 37.Cd "be* at qec?" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm 41interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s (half duplex only) 42Ethernet networks. 43The 44.Nm 45is found on the Sun 10/100 Mbit Ethernet boards 46(Sun part number SUNW,501-2450). 47.Pp 48Each of the host's network addresses 49is specified at boot time with an 50.Dv SIOCSIFADDR 51.Xr ioctl 2 . 52The 53.Nm 54interface employs the address resolution protocol described in 55.Xr arp 4 56to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local 57network. 58.Pp 59The 60.Nm 61is not capable of link autonegotiation, so a media type must be specified 62with 63.Xr ifconfig 8 . 64The supported media types are: 65.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxx -offset indent 66.It media 100baseTX 67Use 100Mbps, half duplex 68.It media 10baseT 69Use 10Mbps, half duplex 70.El 71.Sh SEE ALSO 72.Xr arp 4 , 73.Xr ifmedia 4 , 74.Xr inet 4 , 75.Xr intro 4 , 76.Xr netintro 4 , 77.Xr sbus 4 , 78.Xr ifconfig 8 79.Sh HISTORY 80Support for the 81.Nm 82first appeared in 83.Nx 1.4 . 84