Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:04:34 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: ipx on 802.3 Message-ID: <9512041904.AA00708@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199512041900.VAA08323@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> References: <199512041900.VAA08323@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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<<On Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:00:07 +0200 (SAT), John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> 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
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