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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:32:47 -0400
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [et-users] BPF & ETINC cards
Message-ID:  <199807281435.KAA20752@etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980727143725.A10319@oneinsane.net>

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>trafshow doesnt seem to work...seemingly because FreeBSD 
>doesnt support filtering of DL_NULL date types and serial 
>encapsulations are not supported either.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Ok,
> Now with that out of the way, I am no programmer I am an 
>end user who likes Both FreeBSD and my Etinc product. I 
>asking if it is possible for it to become a reality to get 
>this to work.
>TIA
>Ron
>
>P.S. No flames from either vendor please

Whats your definition of a flame.

Of course it can be fixed, but probably neither of us care enough to
fix it. Its probably quite simply, but ET, as policy, doesn't repair OS
"deflugalties" because we'd never get anything done if we did. There
is no good reason why a NULL header should affect protocol filtering.
Because our driver is multiprotocol and can be configured on the fly,
its difficult to assign a specific encapsulation because it can change.
however, if the serial encaps were supported (ie, frame relay, ppp and
cisco hdlc), we could set these dynamically with a little work. Since 
they are not supported now (except maybe ppp), it makes little sense
to use anything other than NULL


Dennis
>
>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------
>Ron Rosson              ... and a UNIX user said ...
>The InSaNe One                    rm -rf *
>insane@oneinsane.net      and all was null and void
>--------------------------------------------------------
>It's so nice to be insane, nobody asks you to explain.
> 

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