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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:16:05 +0700 (ALMST)
From:      Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multiple ethernet frames for IPX
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906160901220.12882-100000@lion.butya.kz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990615132450.5293D-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> > 	Yes, it is really works now ;). This is first public release of
> > if_ef driver which extends current functionality of existing ethernet
> > drivers.
> 
> I don't know if this is how we will finally solve this problem, (we might
> well do so), but even if we don't this is a very good step in this
> direction. I wonder if this can be generalised within the framework of
> interfaces, to be less specific to ethernet..
> 
> There are other types of interfaces that have sub-interfaces.. e.g. ATM,
> Frame relay, VLAN (I think) etc.
> It looks to me as if we might consider what can be generalised and
> extracted from these examples.

	I tried to keep kernel changes minimal. At my home machine
next functionality is implemented:

	ifconfig ed0 frame 8023
	ifconfig ed0f1 ipx 0x101
	... long time passed ...
	ifconfig ed0f1 ipx 0x101 delete
	ifconfig ed0 frame 8023 delete

	First statement creates clone from the ed0 interface and second
uses it. Last command works, but interface detaching isn't supported
under FreeBDS.  This ideology suits for all types of the interfaces, but
requires significant changes to ifconfig and *_ioctl() routines.
> 
> julian

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Boris Popov
http://www.butya.kz/~bp/



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