NAME
ae —
Ethernet driver for DP8390-based
NuBus Ethernet boards
SYNOPSIS
ae* at nubus?
DESCRIPTION
The
ae interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Ethernet network
via the National Semiconductor DP8390 Ethernet chip set. This set includes the
DP83902.
Each of the host's network addresses is specified at boot time with an
SIOCSIFADDR
ioctl(2). The
ae interface employs the address resolution protocol
described in
arp(4) to
dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local network.
HARDWARE
The
ae interface is currently known to support the following
NuBus cards:
- Asante MacCon Series
- Asante MacCon-i Series
- Asante MacCON-III+ PDS
card
- Farallon EtherMac Series
- Farallon EtherWave Series
- Apple EtherTalk NB
- 3Com EtherLink NB
DIAGNOSTICS
- ae%d at
nubus%d: address %s, type %s %dKB memory.
- This is a normal autoconfiguration message noting the 6
byte physical Ethernet address of the adapter, its manufacturer, and how
much buffer memory it has.
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
inet(4),
netintro(4),
sn(4),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The
ae interface first appeared in
NetBSD
1.0.