Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 16:27:56 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rarpd broken on 2.2-960801-SNAP? Message-ID: <321F8FFC.7991A45@whistle.com> References: <199608242010.QAA04360@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul wrote: > > > Are you absitively posolutely sure it's not sending out a reply, > even a garbled one? When I first shoehorned rarpd into 2.0.5, I > discovered that when I set the ether_type in the outgoing frame, > I had to deliberately _not_ convert it to network byte order (no htons()) > in order for it to go out correctly. This confused me greatly because > NetBSD did (does?) use htons(). I could swear I read somewhere that > this was due to a bug in BPF. It's possible someone fixed the bug, > making the htons() necessary again. > I believe this may be the case..... I remember some traffic on the topic....
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