svn commit: r297358 - head/sys/net

[Jonathan T. Looney]

On 3/28/16, 2:25 PM, "owner-src-committers at freebsd.org on behalf of George V. Neville-Neil" <owner-src-committers at freebsd.org on behalf of gnn at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>Author: gnn
>Date: Mon Mar 28 18:25:54 2016
>New Revision: 297358
>URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/297358
>
>Log:
>  Add ethertype reserved for network testing
>  
>  MFC after:	2 weeks
>
>Modified:
>  head/sys/net/ethernet.h
>
>Modified: head/sys/net/ethernet.h
>==============================================================================
>--- head/sys/net/ethernet.h	Mon Mar 28 17:42:14 2016	(r297357)
>+++ head/sys/net/ethernet.h	Mon Mar 28 18:25:54 2016	(r297358)
>@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ struct ether_vlan_header {
> #define	ETHERTYPE_SLOW		0x8809	/* 802.3ad link aggregation (LACP) */
> #define	ETHERTYPE_PPP		0x880B	/* PPP (obsolete by PPPoE) */
> #define	ETHERTYPE_HITACHI	0x8820	/* Hitachi Cable (Optoelectronic Systems Laboratory) */
>+#define ETHERTYPE_TEST		0x8822  /* Network Conformance Testing */
> #define	ETHERTYPE_MPLS		0x8847	/* MPLS Unicast */
> #define	ETHERTYPE_MPLS_MCAST	0x8848	/* MPLS Multicast */
> #define	ETHERTYPE_AXIS		0x8856	/* Axis Communications AB proprietary bootstrap/config */

The IEEE registry shows this Ethertype as being allocated to Wind River Systems. Do we know that Wind River Systems has further allocated that to be used for network conformance testing? If not, I fear we could end up causing problems down the road.

Jonathan