Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:48:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net> To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD + IPX Message-ID: <199707290048.UAA08978@server.id.net> In-Reply-To: <199707281227.OAA06782@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Jul 28, 97 02:27:08 pm"
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>> Why not just support 802.3. Its not that difficult for pete's sake. If
>> someone asked me to change my entire network to suit a product with such
>> a basic defect I would be very suspicious of the reliability (and support)
>> of the feature. if you can't make something as trivial as 802.3 work then
>> there are lots of more complicated things that probably wont work as well.
>
> It isn't difficult to do if you just do either Ethernet_II or 802.3 on
> all interfaces. Here is some code for that. Just set sysctl net.link.ether.
> ipx.framing8023 to 1 to switch from Ethernet_II framing to 802.3 on ALL
> interfaces.
>
> The reason I don't commit this is that I would rather have a way to
> support more than one framing per interface or otherwise have it at
> least settable per interface. I have code to set it per interface,
> but it use the link1 flag, so it only works on cards that don't use
> that flag.
John -- You don't have to defend yourself. The fact that it works at all
is an accomplishment...
-- Rob
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