From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 2 16:23:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster2.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster2.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7648137B72E for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 16:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@telehouse.ch) Received: (qmail 19170 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2000 23:26:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telehouse.ch) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster2.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Jul 2000 23:26:07 -0000 Message-ID: <395FCED1.2ED61C43@telehouse.ch> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 01:22:57 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of new NetBSD ARP subsystem References: <395E09CC.2EEB627D@telehouse.ch> <20000701122217.C59770@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 05:10:04PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > What is the status of the import of the link-level independent arp > > subsystem? > ...snip... > > Description here: > > http://www.daemonnews.org/199809/underhood.html > > Since daemonnews.org isn't answering me at the moment, you would do a > much better selling job if you would give some _details_ in your email. Hmm, that page is working fine for me... OK, here you go, excerpt from that page: : Traditional BSD kernels have only supported mapping IP addresses to Ethernet : 6-byte MAC addresses (and the FDDI and Token-Ring lookalikes). : However, when dealing with other types of addresses like ARCnet, AX25 packet : radio, etc. with a different length, more general aspects of the ARP mapping : have to be implemented. This paper reports on the one-to-N mapping developed : for NetBSD. : : Old BSD networking up to and including 4.4BSD-lite has only supported IP version : 4 over Ethernet. All modern operating systems based on 4.4BSD-lite have inherited : this limitation. The exception are link types that use the same 6-byte addressing : as Ethernet (e.g., FDDI). : ... Reading the whole page is still necessary, it provides much more detail about the changes. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message