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29.Dd March 31, 2004
30.Dt QE 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm qe
34.Nd SPARC Fast Ethernet interface
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Cd "qec* at sbus? slot ? offset ?"
37.Cd "qe* at qec?"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41interface provides access to 10Mb/s Ethernet networks via the
42.Tn AMD
43Am79C940 (MACE) Ethernet controller.
44The
45.Nm
46is found on the Sun QuadEthernet boards
47(Sun part number SUNW,501-2062).
48.Pp
49Each of the host's network addresses
50is specified at boot time with an
51.Dv SIOCSIFADDR
52.Xr ioctl 2 .
53The
54.Nm
55interface employs the address resolution protocol described in
56.Xr arp 4
57to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local
58network.
59.Sh SEE ALSO
60.Xr arp 4 ,
61.Xr be 4 ,
62.Xr hme 4 ,
63.Xr ie 4 ,
64.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
65.Xr inet 4 ,
66.Xr intro 4 ,
67.Xr le 4 ,
68.Xr netintro 4 ,
69.Xr qec 4 ,
70.Xr sbus 4 ,
71.Xr ifconfig 8
72.Sh HISTORY
73Support for the
74.Nm
75first appeared in
76.Nx 1.4 .
77