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authorgreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2004-01-14 00:39:28 +0000
committergreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2004-01-14 00:39:28 +0000
commit559736766651574fd514e3b2beb1d22e74e67c82 (patch)
tree6dfa549d8dbc3e1226e0991b776f41005fbd85ff /share/man/man4/ng_rfc1490.4
parentb028f9e2688d87d96018f00c1d11e6e16cd4e111 (diff)
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Add an "ethernet" hook to the rfc1490 netgraph module. It will send
and receive FCS-less RFC1490-"bridged" Ethernet packets that are currently just ignored.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/ng_rfc1490.4 b/share/man/man4/ng_rfc1490.4
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--- a/share/man/man4/ng_rfc1490.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ng_rfc1490.4
@@ -62,7 +62,10 @@ hooks are used to transmit and receive raw IP frames and PPP frames,
respectively. PPP frames are transmitted and received according to
RFC 1973; in particular, frames appearing on the
.Dv ppp
-hook begin with the PPP protocol number.
+hook begin with the PPP protocol number. The
+.Dv ethernet
+hook can be used to transmit and receive Ethernet frames (without a
+checksum) in RFC 1490's bridging format.
.Pp
Typically the
.Dv inet
@@ -77,6 +80,8 @@ This node type supports the following hooks:
.Bl -tag -width foobarbazum
.It Dv downstream
Connects to the RFC 1490 peer entity.
+.It Dv ethernet
+Transmits and receives bridged raw Ethernet frames, without a checksum.
.It Dv inet
Transmits and receives raw IP frames.
.It Dv ppp
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