[openbeosnetteam] Re: Protocols types

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Waldemar Kornewald wrote:

> Say, we do neither have PPPoE nor PPP support, but only Ethernet. Now,
> someone wants to add PPP support. He must hard-code the supported protocol
> types. Then, someone wants to add PPPoE. How does he tell the Ethernet
> module that PPPoE needs the types 0x8864 and 0x8863?

Just a small comment. There are PPPoE implementations who do not use the 
standard protocol types (for instance, 3COM's PPPoE implementation). This 
is a good reason why hardcoding this stuff is not a good idea at all.

-Bruno

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