From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 29 10: 1: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39B037BC72; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:00:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA32145; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:59:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200002291759.SAA32145@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: NETGRAPH (proposal. FINAL) In-Reply-To: <38BC0745.2781E494@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Feb 29, 2000 09:52:05 am" To: Julian Elischer Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:59:50 +0100 (CET) Cc: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" , "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is good in theory, however the intel 82586 ethernet chip > (and 596 in 586 mode) will overwrite anything you put there anyhow > as it treats the header specially and fabricates it. > (unless you are running in some mode that is not usually used). can you clarify this ? Looong ago i used the '586 on a bridge and it did let me write the MAC header... cheers luigi > I don't know how many other chips do this but it may be misleading > for the user who sets this on such a chip because the source > address he sets will not be put on the wire. > > The idea is however useful and I guess we'll try add it in > in the near future... > What do you think Archie? > Are we still in code freeze? (I think so). > > Julian > > > > > thanks, > > emax > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- > __--_|\ Julian Elischer > / \ julian@elischer.org > ( OZ ) World tour 2000 > ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth > v > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message