From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 17:42:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA00507 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA00500 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA19384; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606110041.RAA19384@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Ted Lemon Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapped ethertype in BPF output? Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:41:00 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:35:06 -0700 Ted Lemon 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