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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ipx on 802.3
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:32:23 -0700 (MST)
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I believe it is possible to compare the address family in the file
/sys/net/if.c in the function ifioctl() for "case SIOCSIFFLAGS"
(at about line 531) to determin if AF_IPX is being used, and if so,
interpret the values of IFF_LINK[0-2] differently.

This would be a simple hack compared to fixing all the code to
do the right thing for the interface flags.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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