RE: SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Barber
_type_trans as a place to do it. Simon -Original Message- From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:25 PM To: Simon Barber Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: SNAP headers, RFC1042 On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:22:48 -0800 "Simon B

Re: SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:22:48 -0800 "Simon Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The main reason is bridging - the header format needs to be different > for different ports. Ideally I'd like to see a single snap processor > used in both cases (local receive & bridging). One problem with the > current

RE: SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Barber
, not to the real protocol type. This prevents ebtables rules and tc from working correctly. Simon -Original Message- From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:19 PM To: Simon Barber Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: SNAP head

Re: SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:08:17 -0800 "Simon Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently many wireless drivers handle SNAP->Ethernet header processing > - this is an obvious candidate for factoring out - and might possibly be > something that should be moved out of the wireless code completely. > W

SNAP headers, RFC1042

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Barber
Currently many wireless drivers handle SNAP->Ethernet header processing - this is an obvious candidate for factoring out - and might possibly be something that should be moved out of the wireless code completely. Would it make sense to add the code to eth_trans_type or create a ieee80211_trans_type