Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:32:38 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "mark tinguely" <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>, <joost@bps.jodocus.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <puga@mauibuilt.com> Subject: RE: IPFW/VLAN Message-ID: <000001c17715$b0759900$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200111261513.fAQFDfU18648@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: mark tinguely [mailto:tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu] >Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 7:14 AM >To: joost@bps.jodocus.org; tedm@toybox.placo.com >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; puga@mauibuilt.com >Subject: RE: IPFW/VLAN > > > >> In reality, what they are actually doing here is tying ipfw specifically >> to Ethernet when it comes to treatment of ARP packets. This >> is philosophically wrong as a FreeBSD system could theoredically have >> a broadcast-type interface on it in which ARP had meaning and Ethernet >> typing didn't. (for example, if someone wrote an ARCnet driver for it, >> which is highly unlikely) > >Actually, there are now a couple ARCnet drivers for FreeBSD. The existing >ARP code in the network stack is ethernet length-centric, but there are >patches to correct that. Possibly the ipfw code can adapt these changes >also. > Holy cow! (sounds of picking himself up off the floor) Next thing you know someone will write a Token Ring driver for FreeBSD. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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