March 31, 2004 QE 4

### NAME

qe - SPARC Fast Ethernet interface

### SYNOPSIS

qec* at sbus? slot ? offset ? qe* at qec?

### DESCRIPTION

The qe interface provides access to 10Mb/s Ethernet networks via the AMD Am79C940 (MACE) Ethernet controller. The qe is found on the Sun QuadEthernet boards (Sun part number SUNW,501-2062).

Each of the host's network addresses is specified at boot time with an ```SIOCSIFADDR` ioctl(2). The qe interface employs the address resolution protocol described in arp(4) to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local network.

### SEE ALSO

arp(4), be(4), hme(4), ie(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), le(4), netintro(4), qec(4), sbus(4), ifconfig(8)

### HISTORY

Support for the qe first appeared in NetBSD1.4.