From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 14 04:15:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA06401 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 May 1995 04:15:43 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA06393 for ; Sun, 14 May 1995 04:15:41 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id EAA01472; Sun, 14 May 1995 04:18:47 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id EAA00879; Sun, 14 May 1995 04:15:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199505141115.EAA00879@corbin.Root.COM> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Questions/comments on ed driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 May 95 04:10:07 PDT." <199505141110.EAA03438@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 04:15:42 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I wasn't doubting you, but was mearly pointing out that despite what you >> were saying, that there was a bug in the driver after all. The way it was, the >> minimum data portion was 50 bytes rather than 46 (for a total frame length of >> 68 bytes). > >Understood, but is what I am trying to ascertain is: > > Will the ed driver properly receive and pass up to the upper > layers a packet with 42 data bytes??? If not, you should fix > it to do that as well for compatibility with some really really > old junk. The only way to receive frames less than 64 bytes large is by enabling the reception of "runt" packets. This is enabled when in promiscuous mode, but not in normal operation. I'm relunctant to change it. -DG