From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 18 01:05:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21665 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 01:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA21549 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 01:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id HAA03339 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 07:06:07 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199810180606.HAA03339@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Who is using the wavelan driver ? To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 07:06:07 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, is there anyone using the wavelan driver in FreeBSD ? I was trying to apply bridging patches to it but noticed the driver is a bit weird e.g.: * it loads the ethernet header outside the mbuf, then plays tricks to put it back in for bpf use; * it uses a mbuf cluster to hold the packet, but then allocates more regular mbufs if the packet does not fit into the first one (i suppose you can configure the wl card to use packets larger than 2KB...) i need to straighten this a bit for bridging support but don't have the card to test things, so if someone has the card and time to test the changes please contact me. thanks luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message