Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:07:38 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: tseidmann@simultan.ch (Thomas Seidmann) Cc: kris@airnet.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX Routing Message-ID: <199811051607.OAA25155@roma.coe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <364145A3.9F09D220@simultan.ch> from Thomas Seidmann at "Nov 5, 98 07:28:51 am"
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#define quoting(Thomas Seidmann) // Kris Kirby wrote: // > // > Thomas Seidmann wrote: // > > addresses. Next, take a look at IPXrouted(8). Beware: the FreeBSD // > > networking code supports only ETHERNET_II frames. I've hacked // > // > This is interesting. The Beame and Whiteside TCP/IP stack for DOS also // > only works with Ethernet_II frames. It sends the TCP/IP through an ODI. // // TCP/IP over Ethernet packets are _always_ carried over ETHERNET_II // frames (aka blue book Ethernet). IPX packets, on the contrary, are // carried over Ethernet in up to three kinds of frames: ETHERNET_II, 802.3 // an so called 802.2. This is some kind of confusion Novell created. Note Ethernet_snap also. // that the different frame types don't exhibit any contriburtion to // fuctionality nor performance. Blue book Ethernet frames would have // sufficed. IIRC, IPX over 802.3 does not support checksum. I use ethernet_ii on every IPX network, even if it does not need IP. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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