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Subject: Re: IPX feedback request
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:33:59 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <199510181846.LAA20705@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 18, 95 11:46:25 am
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Most is done in if_ethersubr.c, but the ioctl SIOCSIFADDR is done inside
the device driver itself.

The file I mentioned below has got diffs for current of about friday. So 
there should not be trouble with that.

If you have any questions please mail me.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
> 
> Was there any possibility of the changes in the driver being
> made in if_ethersubr.c rather than the driver itself?
> 
> julian
> (p.s. see my other email re: importing this for you)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I sent my announcement of IPX for the FreeBSD distribution 5 days ago and
> > I haven't received any feedback yet. I know you are all busy and maybe
> > everyone thought someone else will look at it? :-)
> > 
> > If I should mail somewhere else please tell me, but according to the 
> > handbook -hackers is the place.
> > 
> > In case anyone missed my announcement, I placed the file in:
> > ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/ipx-fbsd.tgz
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > It supports ipx but not spx. There is diffs for ifconfig and netstat to
> > understand ipx. The only device driver that I changed was if_ed, because
> > that is the one we use here.
> > 
> > John
> > -- 
> > John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
> > 
> 
>