Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:53:06 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet if_ether.c Message-ID: <200101061853.NAA95605@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010106130104.A4573@waterspout.com> References: <200101060045.f060j9R06683@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010106130104.A4573@waterspout.com>
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<<On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:01:04 -0500, "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> said: > ARP is completely independant of both Ethernet and and Internet > Protocol. Perhaps in theory but not in practice. Other network protocols use their own address-translation mechanisms (CLNP's ESIS, IPv6's NDP, DECnet's ???), or just use link-layer addresses directly (XNS, IPX, other modes of the OSI network layer). We don't have an interface type IFT_IEEE802LIKE so ``ether'' it is. (If we were configuring parameters for Ethernet specifically, it would have been net.link.ether.link -- under net.link, name[2] is always an IFT_* and name[3] is always a PF_*.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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