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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
cc: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Swapped ethertype in BPF output? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:41:00 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:16:41 -0700
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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"... :-)

  ehh, uhh, well, send me a context diff for however people want it in the
kernel. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project