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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:59:50 +0100 (CET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com>, "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NETGRAPH (proposal. FINAL)
Message-ID:  <200002291759.SAA32145@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <38BC0745.2781E494@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Feb 29, 2000 09:52:05 am"

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> This is good in theory, however the intel 82586 ethernet chip
> (and 596 in 586 mode) will overwrite anything you put there anyhow
> as it treats the header specially and fabricates it.
> (unless you are running in some mode that is not usually used).

can you clarify this ? Looong ago i used the '586 on a bridge and it did let
me write the MAC header...

	cheers
	luigi

> I don't know how many other chips do this but it may be misleading
> for the user who sets this on such a chip because the source 
> address he sets will not be put on the wire.
> 
> The idea is however useful and I guess we'll try add it in 
> in the near future...
> What do you think Archie?
> Are we still in code freeze? (I think so).
> 
> Julian
> 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > emax
> > 
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