From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 17 11:58: 1 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430E337B72E; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:57:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA04805; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:57:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200006171857.OAA04805@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Smith Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Bill Paul , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sockio.h src/sys/net if.c src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c References: <200006171834.LAA00859@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:34:32 PDT." <200006171834.LAA00859@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:57:55 -0400 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:23:14PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > consider that we use ether as a display for the MAC: > > > fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > > ether 00:a0:c9:3c:5b:93 > > > > > > we should either add an alias for ether, or convert ether over to lladdr.. > > > > Agreed. "ether" is probably the most understood. > > Especially since this is the "ether" address we are setting. All of the > other address tokens are address-family specific, rather than > layer-specific. Sure, in this case it's an ethernet. But FDDI also uses 48 bit MAC addresses. Would you use the same IOCTL to provide physical layer addresses for other sorts of interfaces? Firewire uses (I think) 64 bit MAC addresses. 802.11 use 48 bit addresses on their MAC, though most folks think and treat them like Ethernet interfaces. This is an instance of a general problem, and all the world is not a VAX, er, ethernet. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message