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To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Problems with VLAN and natd.
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Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> 
> Wes Peters wrote:
> >
> [SNIP]
> >
> > Doing link-layer encapsulation modules is really not very difficult.
> > I've written pretty much the full complement, covering ethernet (10,
> > 100, and 1000), FDDI/CDDI, token ring, ATM, and Frame Relay.  (Chuck,
> 
> What about a netgraph-enabled ATM NIC driver ? (this seems the missing
> piece to get bridged Ethernet over RFC1483 encapsulation on ATM)

Someone was going to do this but I think I stopped them by showing them 
how they could do what they wanted using only ksocket connections..
(ksocket allows you to open a socket in a netgraph node in order to
use a normal protocol to encapsulate something.)


> 
> [SNAP]
> 
> >
> > Perhaps so.  If someone does the work to move EthII into netgraph, I can
> > certainly contribute a SNAP/LLC module, and maybe even extensions to
> > ifconfig so you can use it.  ;^)
> >
> > --
> >             "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
> >
> > Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
> > wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/
> 
> --
> Thierry Herbelot
> 
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