Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:22:03 +0100 (MET) | | From | Gergely Madarasz <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cisco-hdlc mode in syncppp.c |
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> I've already submitted a similar patch (except it allowed selection > of the multicast/unicast address through ioctl). > > Alan Cox decided that the address selection should be made > on a per packet basis to reflect the broadcast/directed status > of the packet. (so my patch was rejected). > > I looked at doing this, but currently the rest of the networking > code (upper layer) does not currently handle selection of this > address if IFF_NOARP or IFF_POINTOPOINT is set for the > device (which both are set for syncppp). > > Alan stated that he wanted to do it 'right', which I take to mean > reworking the upper layer to make the correct address selection > for this case. He seems busy right now so I don't know > when this will change.
Ah, I see... anyway, this fix should be urgent, because I have quite a few clients now who had this problem... having all packets CISCO_UNICAST seems to work everywhere...
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