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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/firewire if_fwip.c if_fwipvar.h
	src/sys/net firewire.h if_arp.h if_fwsubr.c src/sys/netinet
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On Saturday 18 September 2004 08:39, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:54:37AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> +> dfr         2004-06-13 10:54:37 UTC
> +>
> +>   FreeBSD src repository
> +>
> +>   Modified files:
> +>     sys/net              if_arp.h
> +>     sys/netinet          if_ether.c
> +>     sys/conf             NOTES files
> +>   Added files:
> +>     sys/dev/firewire     if_fwip.c if_fwipvar.h
> +>     sys/net              firewire.h if_fwsubr.c
> +>   Log:
> +>   Add a new driver to support IP over firewire. This driver is
> intended to +>   conform to the rfc2734 and rfc3146 standard for IP
> over firewire and +>   should eventually supercede the fwe driver.
> Right now the broadcast +>   channel number is hardwired and we don't
> support MCAP for multicast +>   channel allocation - more
> infrastructure is required in the firewire +>   code itself to fix
> these problems.
>
> Why it is not included in GENERIC?

Because when it was committed it was essentially untested. The version 
in current and 5.3 should interoperate with WinXP and possibly OS X but 
it still isn't really well tested.