SUMMARY: Why does my qfe show up as hme?

Thanks to :

Casper.Dik@Sun.COM

Espen Martinsen  esm@mnemonic.no

Hendrik Visage <hvisage@is.co.za>

"Nienkark, Royal D" <royal.d.nienkark@boeing.com>

who had the right answer. Thanks to all who answered with the wrong ones 
too :)

Sun used to make some Quad hme cards, for a short period of time it 
seems. So nothing is worng with our setup, we simply don have qfe card 
and need no qfe driver. We are happy with our happy meal :)

Mohamed~

Question was:

>
>Hello all,
>
>We installed a Sun QuadFast ethernet sbus card on  a E4500/Solaris
>9/64bit, after a boot -r, we cannot find qfe interfaces to configure!!
>
>grep qfe /etc/path_to_inst finds nothing
>and prtconf -v|grep qfe finds nothing either.
>
>Now the surprising thing to me is that :
>
># prtconf -v|grep hme
>         SUNW,hme, instance #0
>         SUNW,hme, instance #1
>         SUNW,hme, instance #2
>         SUNW,hme, instance #3
>         SUNW,hme, instance #4
>
>and of course:
>
># grep hme /etc/path_to_inst
>"/sbus@3,0/SUNW,hme@3,8c00000" 0 "hme"
>"/sbus@3,0/SUNW,hme@0,8c00000" 1 "hme"
>"/sbus@3,0/SUNW,hme@0,8c10000" 2 "hme"
>"/sbus@3,0/SUNW,hme@0,8c20000" 3 "hme"
>"/sbus@3,0/SUNW,hme@0,8c30000" 4 "hme"
>
># ifconfig hme1 plumb
># ifconfig hme1 1.2.3.4 up
>  and I can snoop this interface, ping it and ping from it no problem.
>
># ifconfig hme1
>hme1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
>         inet 1.2.3.4 netmask ff000000 broadcast 1.255.255.255
>         ether 8:0:20:aa:48:18
>
>Why isn't it qfe?  Is this a problem?
>
>Thanks mult, I will summerize.
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