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3.Dd February 3, 1997
4.Dt SE 4
5.Os
6.Sh NAME
7.Nm se
8.Nd Cabletron EA41x SCSI bus Ethernet interface driver
9.Sh SYNOPSIS
10.Cd "se* at scsibus? target ? lun ?"
11.Sh DESCRIPTION
12The
13.Nm
14driver supports the
15.Tn Cabletron
16EA41x
17.Tn SCSI
18bus
19.Tn Ethernet
20interface.
21.Pp
22This driver is a bit unusual.
23It must look like a network interface and it must also appear to be a
24.Tn SCSI
25device to the
26.Tn SCSI
27system.
28.Pp
29In addition, to facilitate
30.Tn SCSI
31commands issued by userland programs, there are
32.Fn open ,
33.Fn close ,
34and
35.Fn ioctl
36entry points.
37This allows a user program to, for example,
38display the EA41x statistic and download new code into the adaptor \-
39functions which can't be performed through the
40.Xr ifconfig 8
41interface.
42Normal operation does not require any special userland program.
43.Sh SEE ALSO
44.Xr scsi 4 ,
45.Xr ifconfig 8
46.Sh AUTHORS
47.An -nosplit
48.An Ian Dall Aq Mt ian.dall@dsto.defence.gov.au
49.Pp
50Acknowledgement: Thanks are due to
51.An Philip L. Budne Aq Mt budd@cs.bu.edu
52who reverse engineered the EA41x.
53In developing this code, Phil's userland daemon "etherd",
54was referred to extensively in lieu of accurate documentation for the device.
55.Sh BUGS
56The EA41x doesn't conform to the
57.Tn SCSI
58specification in much at all.
59About the only standard command supported is
60.Qq inquiry .
61Most commands are 6 bytes long, but the recv data is only 1 byte.
62Data must be received by periodically polling the device with the
63recv command.
64