From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 23:33:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C859937B42B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fAR7WcR46714; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "mark tinguely" , Cc: , Subject: RE: IPFW/VLAN Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:32:38 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c17715$b0759900$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <200111261513.fAQFDfU18648@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: mark tinguely [mailto:tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu] >Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 7:14 AM >To: joost@bps.jodocus.org; tedm@toybox.placo.com >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; puga@mauibuilt.com >Subject: RE: IPFW/VLAN > > > >> In reality, what they are actually doing here is tying ipfw specifically >> to Ethernet when it comes to treatment of ARP packets. This >> is philosophically wrong as a FreeBSD system could theoredically have >> a broadcast-type interface on it in which ARP had meaning and Ethernet >> typing didn't. (for example, if someone wrote an ARCnet driver for it, >> which is highly unlikely) > >Actually, there are now a couple ARCnet drivers for FreeBSD. The existing >ARP code in the network stack is ethernet length-centric, but there are >patches to correct that. Possibly the ipfw code can adapt these changes >also. > Holy cow! (sounds of picking himself up off the floor) Next thing you know someone will write a Token Ring driver for FreeBSD. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message