From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 11:05:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA23799 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:05:03 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA23767 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:05:00 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA00708; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:04:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:04:34 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9512041904.AA00708@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: John Hay Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: ipx on 802.3 In-Reply-To: <199512041900.VAA08323@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> References: <199512041900.VAA08323@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < said: > I am thinking about implementing it. The biggest problem to me seems to > be selecting between ETHERNET_II and 802.3 form the userlevel. I thought > of using IFF_LINK(0,1,2) so that it would be easy to specify with ifconfig. > But then I went to look in /sys/i386/isa and all of them are used by the > network device drivers. :-( So, do everyone a favor and re-write them to use the if_phys entry in the ifnet struct I added for specifically this purpose. Then you can use the IFF_LINK flags for this purpose. (Given that they were called IFF_LLC* in Net/2, well, you guess why they were originally added.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant