Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:41:00 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapped ethertype in BPF output? Message-ID: <199606110041.RAA19384@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:35:06 -0700 Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote: > Sigh. Yeah! Things have been crazy! Tell me about it.. :-) > > It's not just the ethertype, from what I can tell...See the following > > kludge in NetBSD's rbootd(8) (the HP Remote Maintainance Protocol boot > > server): > > That doesn't make sense. There isn't any length in the ethernet > header! Eek, and now that I look at it, the HP RMP length field is in the same place as ethertype ... So, rather than the "more than one place" (been a long day), why don't we say "there's precedence for kludging around the bug"... :-) ----save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/---- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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