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

[John-Mark Gurney]

Doug Rabson wrote this message on Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:15 +0100:
> On Saturday 18 September 2004 08:39, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:54:37AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > +> dfr         2004-06-13 10:54:37 UTC
> > +>
> > +>   FreeBSD src repository
> > +>
> > +>   Modified files:
> > +>     sys/net              if_arp.h
> > +>     sys/netinet          if_ether.c
> > +>     sys/conf             NOTES files
> > +>   Added files:
> > +>     sys/dev/firewire     if_fwip.c if_fwipvar.h
> > +>     sys/net              firewire.h if_fwsubr.c
> > +>   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.
> >
> > Why it is not included in GENERIC?
> 
> Because when it was committed it was essentially untested. The version 
> in current and 5.3 should interoperate with WinXP and possibly OS X but 
> it still isn't really well tested.

Since you mentioned it, It causes my OSX laptop to panic when it
initiates a packet...  If a packet comes from my laptop first, it works
fine..  so, I can ssh from my laptop to a FreeBSD box, and it works
fine, and ping from my laptop, but if I were to ping from the FreeBSD
box to the MacOSX laptop, the laptop will die..

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