ne(4)ne(4)Namene - Second Generation Ethernet Chip Interface
Syntax
device ne0 at ibus? vector neintr
Description
The interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Ethernet network through the
Digital's Second Generation Ethernet Chip (SGEC) based controller.
The host's Internet address is specified at boot time with an SIOCSI‐
FADDR ioctl. The interface employs the address resolution protocol
described in to map dynamically between Internet and Ethernet addresses
on the local network.
The driver normally tries to use a trailer encapsulation to minimize
copying data on input and output. This can be disabled for an inter‐
face by setting the IFF_NOTRAILERS flag with an SIOCSIFFLAGS ioctl.
Trailers are only used for packets destined for Internet hosts.
The SIOCSPHYSADDR ioctl can be used to change the physical address of
the adapter and the SIOCRPHYSADDR ioctl can be used to read its physi‐
cal address.
The SIOCADDMULTI and SIOCDELMULTI ioctls can be used to add or delete
multicast addresses. The recognizes a maximum of 16 multicast
addresses.
The SIOCRDCTRS and SIOCRDZCTRS ioctls can be used to read or read and
clear the Ethernet driver counters. The argument to these two ioctls
is a pointer to a counter structure, found in
The SIOCENABLBACK and SIOCDISABLBACK ioctls can be used to enable and
disable the interface loopback mode respectively.
Diagnostics
The diagnostic error messages contain relevant information provided by
the driver. For example,
ne%d: self test failed <reason lists>
Adapter did not pass the power-up self-test during autoconfiguration
time.
ne%d: write CSR0 failed
The driver was unable to set the initial value for the adapter.
ne%d: couldn't allocate ......
The driver was unable to allocate memory for the internal data struc‐
tures. ne%d: can't handle af%d
The interface was handed a message with addresses formated in an
unsuitable address family, and the packet was dropped.
ne%d: memory error (MERR)
A host memory problem or a memory parity error has occurred.
ne%d: SIOCADDMULTI fail, multicast list full
Too many multicast requests have been made.
See Alsoarp(4p), inet(4f), intro(4n)ne(4)
