svn commit: r297358 - head/sys/net

[George Neville-Neil]

On 28 Mar 2016, at 14:36, Jonathan T. Looney wrote:

> 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.

Guess who worked at Wind River and got that allocated :-)

I am going to dig through my old mail archives from WR days and get the 
IEEE to move it, since, clearly, not one kept the thing up after I left. 
  That address is over a decade out of date, and Wind River no longer 
exists, as Intel bought them several years ago.

Best,
George