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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@starbsd.org>
Subject: 802.2/802.3 encapsulation of IP packets not supported?
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I have a wireless basestation that translates ip packets using RC894
encapsulation into IEEE802.2/802.3 encapsulation (RFC1042).
Yes..I think that is gross too, but nevertheless I;d like to
get it to work.

THe host requirements RFC states that a host SHOULD be able to receive
RFC894 packets. Currently it seems that FreeBSD does not do that.
Yes, there is the ef pseudo-interface but that has no code to handle
802.2/802.3 IP packets (or ARP packets). And besides, I think it
should be handled transparently. 

Is there a way to configure netgraph to handle this correctly?

If not, I'm going to implement it in ether_demux().

-Guido


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