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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru>
Subject: Re: kern/63317: make ng_ether(4) support "lower" and
	"orphans"simultaneously
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The following reply was made to PR kern/63317; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru>
To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>,
	bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/63317: make ng_ether(4) support "lower" and "orphans"simultaneously
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:31:34 +0400

 On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:53:23AM -0500, Archie Cobbs wrote:
 A> Let me be more specific. Suppose both lower and orphans are connected.
 A> A packet is received from the Ethernet hardware with ethertype
 A> 0x1234 (i.e., unrecognized). Which hook(s) (lower and/or orphans)
 A> does that packet get written to?
 
 It'll be written to orphans surely.
 
 A>  Then: same question applied to a packet received from the upper hook.
 
 Any packet received on the upper will go to upper protocol stack. The "upper"
 behavior is not touched.
 
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