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From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To: Andrew Riabtsev <resident@b-o.ru>
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Subject: Re: netgraph questions on ng_tee, ng_iface, ng_socket
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Andrew Riabtsev wrote:

> DN> connecting the ng_iface hook inet to ng_ether's upper or lower doesnt make
> DN> any sense because ng_ether itself does not do an encasulation of the IP
> DN> packet into an ethernet frame. or am i wrong here, and just configuring it
> DN> wrongly ?
>
> Connecting ng_iface:inet and ng_ether:upper/lower do nothing, well, it
> do something but not what you are waiting for, i think.

i know, hence was asking if there was something i could do, even if it
meant writing an extension to ng_ether to create a new netgraph type.

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