AE(4)

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.