Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:27:48 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RS485 bus implementation... Message-ID: <199510120157.LAA15661@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510112048.VAA09503@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 11, 95 09:48:29 pm
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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! [[
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