[openbeosnetteam] Re: Protocols types
- From: "Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx>
- To: <openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:53:53 +0200
> > 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.
Which number does 3Com use and with which number does it interfer?
How do we want to handle this? If I understand you correctly, the problem is
that an ethernet packet might have a type IP, but actually it is 3Com's
PPPoE packet, right? How does Linux/BSD handle that?
Waldemar
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