Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:37:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
Message-ID:  <200004240337.XAA31858@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200004240333.XAA31816@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <200004230411.VAA17652@bubba.whistle.com> <3902A56B.167EB0E7@elischer.org> <200004240333.XAA31816@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
<<On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:33:00 -0400 (EDT), I made the following
cryptic remark:

> Some drivers are kind enough to tell is without needing to test.

What I meant to say is:

Some hardware is kind enough to tell us whether the packet matched our
address, so that a software comparison is unnecessary.

-GAWollman



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200004240337.XAA31858>