Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:24:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Andrey Sverdlichenko <blaze@infosec.ru> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph ethernet module Message-ID: <200008071624.JAA07533@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008071056210.6111-100000@xen.infosec.ru> from Andrey Sverdlichenko at "Aug 7, 2000 11:07:31 am"
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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
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