1.\" $OpenBSD: be.4,v 1.5 2003/06/06 10:29:42 jmc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net) 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 17.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 18.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, 19.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 20.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 21.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 23.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN 24.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 25.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.Dd October 5, 2001 28.Dt BE 4 sparc64 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm be 32.Nd SPARC64 Fast Ethernet interface 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Cd "qec* at sbus? slot ? offset ?" 35.Cd "be* at qec?" 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37The 38.Nm 39interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s (half duplex only) 40Ethernet networks. 41The 42.Nm 43is found on the Sun 10/100 Mbit Ethernet boards 44(Sun part number SUNW,501-2655). 45.Pp 46Each of the host's network addresses 47is specified at boot time with an 48.Dv SIOCSIFADDR 49.Xr ioctl 2 . 50The 51.Nm 52interface employs the address resolution protocol described in 53.Xr arp 4 54to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local 55network. 56.Pp 57The 58.Nm 59is not capable of link autonegotiation, so a media type must be specified 60with 61.Xr ifconfig 8 . 62The supported media types are: 63.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxx -offset indent 64.It media 100baseTX Op mediaopt half-duplex 65Use 100Mbps, half duplex 66.It media 10baseT Op mediaopt half-duplex 67Use 10Mbps, half duplex 68.El 69.Sh SEE ALSO 70.Xr arp 4 , 71.Xr hme 4 , 72.Xr ifmedia 4 , 73.Xr inet 4 , 74.Xr intro 4 , 75.Xr le 4 , 76.Xr netintro 4 , 77.Xr qe 4 , 78.Xr qec 4 , 79.Xr sbus 4 , 80.Xr hostname.if 5 , 81.Xr ifconfig 8 82.Sh HISTORY 83.Ox 84support for the 85.Nm 86first appeared in 87.Ox 3.0 . 88