From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 7 9:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B22637BA59 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA07533; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200008071624.JAA07533@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: netgraph ethernet module In-Reply-To: from Andrey Sverdlichenko at "Aug 7, 2000 11:07:31 am" To: Andrey Sverdlichenko Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrey Sverdlichenko writes: > > Andrey Sverdlichenko writes: > > > Are there any plans to develop ethernet encapsulation module for netgraph, > > > something that can be inserted between ng_iface and ng_ether? > > > > Not a bad idea.. > > So, there is no currently work in progress, and i'll start a new one? Sure! :-) > > But really this should be separate module(s) for each protocol type. > [skip] > > IPX (0x8137) +---------------+ AppleTalk (0x809B) > > ... ---------| ng_ether_mux |--------------- ... > > +---------------+ > > | > > | > > +-----------+ > > | ng_ether | > > +-----------+ > > Is there a way to get hardware address from ng_ether? ng_ether_mux must > fill source address in ethernet header, and AFAIK the only way it can get > it now is downstream->peer->node->private->ac_enaddr, which is dirty hack. > Possibly a control message should be added to this node type? Yeah, that's a good idea, and it would be easy to do.. I'll put it on my list. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message