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6.Dd March 7, 1998
7.Dt LE 4 alpha
8.Os
9.Sh NAME
10.Nm le
11.Nd Alpha on-board or PCI LANCE ethernet interface
12.Sh SYNOPSIS
13.Cd "le* at  tc? slot ? offset ? " Pq "TurboChannel Alphas"
14.Cd "le* at pci? dev ? function ?" Pq "PCI LANCE Ethernet (untested)"
15.Sh DESCRIPTION
16The
17.Nm
18interface provides access to the Ethernet network via the
19.Tn AMD
20.Tn LANCE
21Ethernet chip set.
22.Pp
23Each of the host's network addresses
24is specified at boot time with an
25.Dv SIOCSIFADDR
26.Xr ioctl .
27The
28.Nm
29interface employs the address resolution protocol described in
30.Xr arp 4
31to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local
32network.
33.Sh BUGS
34The PCI form of the Lance driver is untested.
35.Sh SEE ALSO
36.Xr arp 4 ,
37.Xr inet 4 ,
38.Xr intro 4
39