Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:16:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX routing? Message-ID: <33CBB063.237C228A@whistle.com> References: <199707150926.PAA08078@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Erk. Do I take it then that it's not possible to do the 802.[23] protocols > > as well as Ethernet_II simultaneously on the same interface? > > It's possible to receive both types of frames. But how to know > which kind of encapsulation to use when you SEND the packets ? > The only way to use both encapsulations I see is to keep a table > that maps each network address to encapsulation type and fill > it using the received packets. This is done by keeping the framing type in an IPX ARP equivalent. > > I've looked ayt the Linux code and it seems to me that they > just allow the applied software to decide which encapsulation > type to use: they just fill the full IPX header (that includes > Ethernet header) in user-level software rather than in driver. > It would be not bad to make the IPX implementation more > Linux-like so it would be easy to port Netware emulators. > > -SB
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