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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-Beta FDDI Broken?
Date: 1 Feb 1997 22:58:18 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

[FDDI in 2.2-BETA can use tcpdump, but doesn't successfully ARP.]

> I'm sorry to say that yes, this is broken.  Nate Williams is working on
> it right now, happily enough, ...

Umm, i didn't knew this.  There's not much `work' involved, just put
an htons() around some ETHERTYPE_IP.

(Cc to Nate so he could avoid useless work.  I've also sent the diff i
intend to commit to Vince meanwhile.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)