From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 30 15:01:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA14199 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 15:01:45 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA14193 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 15:01:40 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA16529; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:00:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:00:04 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501302300.AA16529@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: supervisor@alb.asctmd.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sys/netipx -Reply In-Reply-To: References: Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < Would it make sense to create protocol family callbacks which would be > available to the ethernet hardware drivers? Is there such an interface > already defined? No. The right thing to do is to load the protocol family first, then load any interfaces, then configure those interfaces. This is presently very hard to do. I had hoped to have a solution implemented by now, but other things have soaked up my time. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant