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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:41:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        matt@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, osyjm@cdsnet.net, root@deadline.snafu.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Q: Does anyone know about implementing LAT support?
Message-ID:  <199504201841.LAA15087@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504201432.OAA11104@whydos.lkg.dec.com> from "Matt Thomas" at Apr 20, 95 02:32:52 pm

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> I'm think I'm going to use the ifalias support and extend it to AF_LINK 
> sockaddrs.  So if SIOCAIFADDR fails, then I'll fall back to SIOCIFADDR.
> 
> The worst thing is that this means all the drivers will have to change
> to support DECnet.  I'll be sure to make my drivers support DECnet
> but I'll leave the other drivers to others.
> 
> My goal is to minimize the changes required to the system to support DECnet.

You should be able to add it to the generic ethernet code...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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