Re: two new link type request

[alex medvedev <alexm () pycckue org>]

hi,

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:06:18AM -0600, alex medvedev wrote:
> > can we define two new link types for the IBM SP switch DLT_SP and for the
> > IBM Next Federation switch DLT_SN?
> >
> > IBM defined them as IFT_SN 0x38 and IFT_SP 0x39 in
> > /usr/include/net/if_types.h
> >
> > i can find out the off_nl and off_linktype values for them.
>
> And the link-layer header format?  (Is this something atop which you can
> run protocols such as IP?  I infer so, given that they're in
> if_types.h.)

these are physical interfaces, which you can run protocols on top of.

just got email back from IBM:

IBM> SP & Federation switch driver code is IBM proprietary and we
IBM> can not release the source code/header to outside world. Can
IBM> you still reserve 0x38 & 0x39 for us to use?

thanks,

-alexm
13:16 01/12/2003

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