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Date:      Fri, 07 Jun 1996 23:00:28 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        jmf@free-gate.com (Jean-Marc Frailong)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISC dhcp, AF_UNSPEC & bpf bugs 
Message-ID:  <199606080600.XAA12797@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 21:53:16 GMT." <31b894c2.880770591@192.168.1.1> 

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>I am currently trying to port the ISC DHCP server to FreeBSD. In the
>process, I found 2 problems related to the BPF implementation, which
>they use to send packets on specific interfaces.
>
>1. When sending a packet via BPF, the ether type gets byte-swapped.

   This issue keeps coming up - I think it was the AppleTalk people the last
time. I personally could care less which way it is and don't have an opinion.
Someone just decide which way it fits the standard usage model the best and
send in a diff.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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