Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:58:32 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: IPX now available Message-ID: <199510120558.HAA23234@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199510120551.WAA04107@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 11, 95 10:51:00 pm
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> I've never gotten to the bottom of what the difference is..
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> > It isn't difficult to support 802.3. The problem is in setting it from the
> > userlevel. If it is just a kernel compile time option it should be easy. I
> > have thought of using one of the link flags in the ifnet structure, then
> > you can just add it to the ifconfig commandline. It would mean the minimum
> > changes. I think you would only need to change if_ethersubr.c then.
> >
The ethernet II header consists of:
6 bytes destination address | 6 bytes source address | 2 bytes protocol type.
eg: ip, ipx, etc
The ethernet 802.3 header consists of:
6 bytes destination address | 6 bytes source address | 2 bytes packet length.
John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
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