Dag Brattli wrote:
>Thomas Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> How about just merging that into ifconfig? Really. ifconfig already
>> has support things like IPX, so why not add it?
>
>Yes, that is possible (if Philip accepts it).
Sure, that should be no problem.
>> Is there any reason NOT to make everything look like a network device
>> driver?
>
>There have been some attempts by people to add IP routes to irda0 to make
>it forward IP frames (thinking it was the IrLAN device), so there can be
>some confusion.
Possibly the right way to fix this is to remove any special-casing for IP
that remains in the network stack and allow devices to say what protocols
they support (so that users wouldn't be allowed to assign IP addresses or
routes to irda0). There have been other cases of network devices that it
isn't possible to stuff arbitrary protocols through without using special
encapsulation code.
p.
