From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 13:05:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA29636 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 13:05:08 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA29598 ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 13:04:21 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04371; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:00:54 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512042100.OAA04371@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ipx on 802.3 To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:00:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, wollman@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512041900.VAA08323@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Dec 4, 95 09:00:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 982 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > After the announcement of the ipx code a few people enquired about supporting > it on 802.3 also. > > 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 anybody have a good idea on how to specify it from userlevel, so > that it can be different for each interface? IFCONFIG(8) UNIX System Manager's Manual IFCONFIG(8) NAME ifconfig - configure network interface parameters SYNOPSIS ifconfig interface address_family [address [dest_address]] [parameters] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How about that? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.