From owner-freebsd-net Wed Nov 4 22:29:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21617 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:29:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from SIMULTAN.CH (eunet-gw.simultan.ch [194.191.191.82] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21612 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:29:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tseidmann@simultan.ch) Received: from simultan.ch (wsaltis-053.SIMULTAN.CH [192.92.128.53]) by SIMULTAN.CH (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA22714; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 07:28:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <364145A3.9F09D220@simultan.ch> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 07:28:51 +0100 From: Thomas Seidmann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kirby CC: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX Routing References: <199811032339.PAA13534@abused.com> <3640049D.ABC8E3D6@simultan.ch> <3640A3B2.72268322@airnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kirby wrote: > > Thomas Seidmann wrote: > > addresses. Next, take a look at IPXrouted(8). Beware: the FreeBSD > > networking code supports only ETHERNET_II frames. I've hacked > > This is interesting. The Beame and Whiteside TCP/IP stack for DOS also > only works with Ethernet_II frames. It sends the TCP/IP through an ODI. TCP/IP over Ethernet packets are _always_ carried over ETHERNET_II frames (aka blue book Ethernet). IPX packets, on the contrary, are carried over Ethernet in up to three kinds of frames: ETHERNET_II, 802.3 an so called 802.2. This is some kind of confusion Novell created. Note that the different frame types don't exhibit any contriburtion to fuctionality nor performance. Blue book Ethernet frames would have sufficed. Regards, Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message