From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 14 16:13:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA43137B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0695843E91 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.5/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gAF0DP9i036699 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:13:26 -0800 (PST)?g (envelope-from sam@errno.com)œ X-Authentication-Warning: ebb.errno.com: Host melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82] claimed to be melange Message-ID: <166901c28c3b$d1794520$52557f42@errno.com> From: "Sam Leffler" To: Subject: HEADS UP: network changes committed (read this) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:13:25 -0800 Organization: Errno Consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just committed a large set of changes that affect all network interface drivers. For the most part these changes are simple and should have no effect. A few drivers however needed significant work and I was unable to test them because I don't have the hardware. If you use the:ie, le, or wl drivers beware that things may be broken. Specifically input packet handling no longer strips the Ethernet header in the drivers; instead the header is left at the front of the packet. In these drivers the code actually read the Ethernet header into a separate structure and changing it to write the header in the mbuf chain required non-trivial changes. If you have one of these drivers and experience problems please contact me directly so I can work with you to fix it. In general, the changes to drivers should not be noticeable. There were changes to the VLAN support that you will notice. If you're a VLAN user please let me know if you experience problems. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message