.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
.\" the Systems Programming Group of the University of Utah Computer
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)le.4 5.2 (Berkeley) %G%
.Cd "device le0 at scode?"
interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Ethernet network via the
Each of the host's network addresses
is specified at boot time with an
interface employs the address resolution protocol described in
to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local
The use of ``trailer'' encapsulation to minimize copying data on
input and output is supported by the interface but offers no advantage
The use of trailers is negotiated with
This negotiation may be disabled, on a per-interface basis,
.It le%d: hardware address %s.
This is a normal autoconfiguration message noting the 6 byte physical
ethernet address of the adapter.
.It de%d: can't handle af%d.
a message with addresses formatted in an unsuitable address
family; the packet was dropped.
The following message indicate a possible hardware error performing
the indicated operation during autoconfiguration or initialization.
.It le%d: init timeout, stat = 0x%x.
The hardware did not respond to an initialize command during reset.
The reset procedure continues anyway.
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