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From: wollman@UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: AUI with ed0 and 3c503 8-bit
Message-ID: <1993Jul27.195636.23569@emba.uvm.edu>
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 19:56:36 GMT
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In article <CGD.93Jul27115107@erewhon.cs.berkeley.edu>,
Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

>ifconfig ed0 llc0
>
>to get ed0 (or ec0) to use the aui port on a 3c503.
>
>ifconfig ed0 -llc0
>(which is the default) tells it explicitly to use the BNC port.

>                     so many bugs, so little time.

And this is one of them.  The IFF_LLC0 flag should never have been
stolen for this purpose, and should not be used in this manner.  The
right thing to do is to define a new if_flags value (and while you're
at it, change if_flags to be a u_int, not a u_short) and test /that/
in the drivers.

-GAWollman

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