Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:22:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>, Stuart Eichert <seichert@coopcomp.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG, oppermann@monzoon.net Subject: Re: Am I missing something? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106280919010.94113-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010627190245.B12609@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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As you haven't seen it you are rather bold in declaring that.. In fact you can do so. You hook into the interface hook for 'all ethertypes' and pass those you don't want back to the ethernet handling code. hopefully we can release it soon. On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:11:57PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I have a netgraph node written (but not yet released by the company that > > asked me to write it) that when hooked to the 'orphans' hook of an > > ethernet node, can filter out arbitrary Ethertypes and send them to > > arbitrary hooks, so, by hooking this node to the ethernet node, > > you can arbitrarily process as many or as few additional ethertypes as you > > need to. > > This doesn't let you hook on the Ethertype of a protocol currently > supported in ether_input without breaking all the others. Personaly, > I'd like to be able to hook IP on one interface while allowing > processing to proceed as normal on the others, but you can't do that > with just an orphin's de-mux node if I'm reading the code correctly. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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