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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:00:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, wollman@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ipx on 802.3
Message-ID:  <199512042100.OAA04371@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199512041900.VAA08323@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Dec 4, 95 09:00:07 pm

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> 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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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