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.