ae
—
Ethernet driver for DP8390-based NuBus Ethernet boards
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.
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
- 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.
The ae
interface first appeared in
NetBSD 1.0.