Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:20:51 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple ethernet frames for IPX Message-ID: <199906160120.SAA00645@walker3.apple.com>
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> From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> > Date: 1999-06-15 04:31:38 -0700 > To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Multiple ethernet frames for IPX > Delivered-to: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Hello, > > Yes, it is really works now. This is first public release of > if_ef driver which extends current functionality of existing ethernet > drivers. > > Below I'm put a part of README file included in the distribution. > If someone can review/test this work and give me any suggestions, critics > or anything else I'm will be very grateful. > > URL of driver archive > ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/ipx/ifef-1.0b0.tar.gz > > Ok, here is README: I have a couple of questions: How does this handle the problem of getting a forwarded packet back into the wrapper it needs (e.g., 802.3/SNAP)? Why is this better than, e.g., having stacks register for packet-type reception? I'd think this would perform better than the "virtual device" scheme. A (minor?) drawback is updating both stack and "driver family support" (e.g., ether_input()) to handle this. Thanks, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | Men are from Earth. Apple Computer, Inc. | Women are from Earth. 2 Infinite Loop | Deal with it. Cupertino, CA 95014 | *-------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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