From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 11:42:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA05751 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:42:39 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA05745 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:42:38 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA15087; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:41:08 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504201841.LAA15087@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Q: Does anyone know about implementing LAT support? To: matt@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, osyjm@cdsnet.net, root@deadline.snafu.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504201432.OAA11104@whydos.lkg.dec.com> from "Matt Thomas" at Apr 20, 95 02:32:52 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 665 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'