From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 11 18:34:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA27055 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 18:34:52 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA27049 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 18:34:44 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA15661; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:27:48 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510120157.LAA15661@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: RS485 bus implementation... To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:27:48 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510112048.VAA09503@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 11, 95 09:48:29 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 844 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > > What's the ioctl to set/get the physical address for an interface? > > I've found SIO[GS]IFPHYSADDR in the if_fe driver, but these are > > effectively unused as the values don't appear to be defined anywhere. > > What's the _physical_ address? Sorry, media address - in the context of ethernet, the MAC address. In my context, an 8-bit value to be used as the local station address on the RS485 bus. > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[