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Date:      Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:00:04 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        supervisor@alb.asctmd.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sys/netipx -Reply
Message-ID:  <9501302300.AA16529@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <sf2cedbd.002@alb.asctmd.com>
References:  <sf2cedbd.002@alb.asctmd.com>

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<<On Mon, 30 Jan 1995 13:44:19 -0700, supervisor@alb.asctmd.com said:

> 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

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