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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: IPX routing?
To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:19:58 +0600 (ESD)
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> 
> At the moment the code in FreeBSD only do Ethernet_II framing, so
> you will have use that on the nets that connects to the FreeBSD box.
> I do have code that do the Novel 802.3 protocol, but it only works
> on the ed0 type cards because I use link1 in ifconfig to set it
> and most other cards use that for something else like switching
> 10BT on/off.

By the way, is there any free link level flag ? As far as I remember
some flag was obsoleted and freed the space. I think it can be used
to switch the IPX code on an interface between 802.3 and EthernetII.

-SB