Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:34:46 -0800 From: "Kevin J. Rowett" <krowett@verio.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frametypes (was: Re: Netware client for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <4.1.19981117123137.00a24400@pop.ncal.verio.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981117192910.asmodai@wxs.nl> References: <199811171820.NAA26469@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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>Care to elaborate on Novell's breaking of the IEEE specs? AFAIK, they just used >the standard (IEEE's). > In one "mode" NetWare sets the type field (Eth II lingo), or the length field (802.3 lingo) to a value of zero. The type/length field has been the major difference between Ethernet II and 802.3. What it's used for, how the values are chosen, and what those values truely mean is never clear. However, almost everyone agrees that a type/length field = broken Netware packet to follow. KR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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