From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 6 10:53:11 2001 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 10:53:08 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2BF37B400; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 10:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA95605; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:53:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:53:06 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200101061853.NAA95605@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "C. Stephen Gunn" Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet if_ether.c In-Reply-To: <20010106130104.A4573@waterspout.com> References: <200101060045.f060j9R06683@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010106130104.A4573@waterspout.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > ARP is completely independant of both Ethernet and and Internet > Protocol. Perhaps in theory but not in practice. Other network protocols use their own address-translation mechanisms (CLNP's ESIS, IPv6's NDP, DECnet's ???), or just use link-layer addresses directly (XNS, IPX, other modes of the OSI network layer). We don't have an interface type IFT_IEEE802LIKE so ``ether'' it is. (If we were configuring parameters for Ethernet specifically, it would have been net.link.ether.link -- under net.link, name[2] is always an IFT_* and name[3] is always a PF_*.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message