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On 11/11/2014 2:31 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> In a conversation on questions@ re natd(8), Gary said he was about to
> upgrade to 9.3 from some (embarrassingly :) old version, and I said:
>
>   >> Strangely, there's no man page for ep nor if_ep on 8.x or 9.x?
>
> To which Gary replied:
>
>   > ugh.  That will be interesting when my upgrade starts in a few days.
>   > Dang.
>   > man ep
>   > ep -- Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink III (3c5x9) interfaces

I'm amazed people still use tech this old.

> So can anyone confirm that ep(4) is present on 9.3-R, even if only i386?

It's available in i386, all releases (even head, presently).  It's not 
in amd64 due to no ISA support.