Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:13:41 -0600 (CST) From: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> To: joost@bps.jodocus.org, tedm@toybox.placo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, puga@mauibuilt.com Subject: RE: IPFW/VLAN Message-ID: <200111261513.fAQFDfU18648@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> In-Reply-To: <000101c17649$90e06600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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> In reality, what they are actually doing here is tying ipfw specifically > to Ethernet when it comes to treatment of ARP packets. This > is philosophically wrong as a FreeBSD system could theoredically have > a broadcast-type interface on it in which ARP had meaning and Ethernet > typing didn't. (for example, if someone wrote an ARCnet driver for it, > which is highly unlikely) Actually, there are now a couple ARCnet drivers for FreeBSD. The existing ARP code in the network stack is ethernet length-centric, but there are patches to correct that. Possibly the ipfw code can adapt these changes also. --mark tinguely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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