Date: 11 Jun 1996 09:43:11 -0400 From: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapped ethertype in BPF output? Message-ID: <el2rarmmp74.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: Ted Lemon's message of Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:35:06 -0700 References: <199606110035.RAA28148@toccata.fugue.com>
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Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> writes: > > > 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! RMP uses 802.3 encapsulation. The `packet length' field of 802.3 is in the same place as the `packet type' field of Ethernet II. The relevant FreeBSD code uses host byte order for both.
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