cvs commit: src/sys/dev/firewire if_fwip.c if_fwipvar.h src/sys/net firewire.h if_arp.h if_fwsubr.c src/sys/netinet if_ether.c src/sys/conf NOTES files

Doug Rabson dfr at nlsystems.com
Sun Jun 13 18:05:46 GMT 2004


On Sunday 13 June 2004 15:34, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:54:37AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> >   Log:
> >   Add a new driver to support IP over firewire. This driver is
> > intended to conform to the rfc2734 and rfc3146 standard for IP over
> > firewire and should eventually supercede the fwe driver. Right now
> > the broadcast channel number is hardwired and we don't support MCAP
> > for multicast channel allocation - more infrastructure is required
> > in the firewire code itself to fix these problems.
>
> Whoah! Impressive.
>
> Was Apple's code drop useful here, or is this a completely
> from-scratch implementation?

I didn't look at Apple's code - this was implemented from the RFCs (with 
a lot of code borrowed from the fwe driver and if_ethersubr.c).


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