Re: Raw Ethernet on 8.5 Problem
Re: Raw Ethernet on 8.5 Problem
- Subject: Re: Raw Ethernet on 8.5 Problem
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:47:38 -0800
Thanks for digging into the old archives Rich! I appreciate it. I'll look
into adding this to our code base. Were you able to link this to a
particular version of OpenTransport? I suppose doing this in most all
conditions is probably harmless.
Thanks again!
--- At Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:04:01 -0800, Rich Kubota wrote:
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Duane,
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This sounds like a bug which sounds really familiar. I recall that if
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you tried to open a promiscuous endpoint on the built-in ethernet
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hardware when ATalk and TCP were both disabled, or using a different
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NIC (like a different Ethernet card), then the endpoint would not be
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passed incoming packets. In fact in reviewing my ancient emails, I
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found that I submitted bug number 2288266 on this problem. It appears
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that the problem was fixed in a later release of OT.
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The solution that I came up with was to open a DDP endpoint above the
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built-in ethernet. You don't need to bind the "kickstart" ddp
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endpoint, just layer DDP above the desired ethernet NIC.
[ Excellant example code removed ]
...Duane
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