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                     20: .TH ENP 4 "June 23, 1990"
                     21: .UC 5
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: enp \- CMC 10 Mb/s Ethernet interface
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .B "device enp0 at vba? csr 0xfff40000 vector enpintr"
                     26: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     27: The
                     28: .I enp
                     29: interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Ethernet network through
                     30: a CMC ENP-20 controller.
                     31: .PP
                     32: The hardware has 128 kilobytes of dual-ported memory on the VERSAbus. 
                     33: This memory
                     34: is used for internal buffering by the board, and the interface code reads
                     35: the buffer contents directly through the VERSAbus.
                     36: The address of this memory is derived from the address specified
                     37: in the configuration file.
                     38: .PP
                     39: Each of the host's network addresses
                     40: is specified at boot time with an SIOCSIFADDR
                     41: ioctl.  The
                     42: .I ace
                     43: interface employs the address resolution protocol described in
                     44: .IR arp (4)
                     45: to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local
                     46: network.
                     47: .PP
                     48: The interface normally tries to use a ``trailer'' encapsulation
                     49: to minimize copying data on input and output.
                     50: The use of trailers is negotiated with ARP.
                     51: This negotiation may be disabled, on a per-interface basis,
                     52: by setting the IFF_NOTRAILERS
                     53: flag with an SIOCSIFFLAGS ioctl.
                     54: .PP
                     55: Associated with each interface is a character device which
                     56: is used to dowload, start, and reset the firmware in the controller.
                     57: Reading or writing the ``ram device'' reads or writes the writable
                     58: control store in the controller.  Two
                     59: .IR ioctl (2)
                     60: calls, ENPIOGO and ENPIORESET, are used to start and reset the
                     61: firmware.
                     62: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     63: .BR "enp%d: can't handle af%d" .
                     64: The interface was handed
                     65: a message with addresses formatted in an unsuitable address
                     66: family; the packet was dropped.
                     67: .SH SEE ALSO
                     68: intro(4), inet(4), arp(4), enpload(8)
                     69: .SH BUGS
                     70: The hardware is not capable of talking to itself.  The software
                     71: implements local sending and broadcast by sending such packets to the
                     72: loop interface.  This is a kludge.
                     73: .PP
                     74: The link level firmware does not support setting the board's
                     75: Ethernet address.

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