From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Aug 14 17:59:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16ED437B9C1 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08552; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA26865; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200008150059.RAA26865@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Interface types defined in if_types.h In-Reply-To: <00Aug10.081900est.115209@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Aug 10, 2000 08:18:58 am" To: Peter Jeremy Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:59:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: arch@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-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Jeremy writes: > /sys/net/if_types.h describes itself as: > * Interface types for benefit of parsing media address headers. > * This list is derived from the SNMP list of ifTypes, currently > * documented in RFC1573, now maintained as: > * > * ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/smi-numbers > > The current version of smi-numbers lists 115 ifTypes that don't appear > in if_types.h (including l2vlan (135) for 802.1q). FreeBSD also > defines 4 types (IFT_GIF, IFT_PVC, IFT_FAITH and IFT_STF) that don't > match IANA assignments. Hmmm.. we can start by doing the obvious/uncontroversial stuff. That is, go ahead and import any new and non-conflicting types. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message