Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:27:32 +0600 (ESD) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ethernet-like loopback & IPX Message-ID: <199607230227.IAA09972@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199607221346.JAA23451@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Jul 22, 96 09:46:36 am
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> > > > ... > > > > > > By the way, I have fixed the bug (in my opinion) in IPX. It allowed > > > only one link-level (i.e. Ethernet) address for all interfaces. > > > Was it a real bug or feature ? > > > > > > > It is a leftover from its XNS days. If you send me the patches for > > IPX, I will look it over and commit it. > > It's not a bug, but a feature. Having a single address for your > end-station make quite a few other weirdnesses in the protocol stack > and application just go away. But if you have a single address you need to set it for all Ethernet cards or they will not accept the packets with this address. The current implementation does not do this and I think that it's not a very good idea. -SB
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