June 7, 1997

### 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 NetBSD1.0.