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- From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
- Subject: Re: ifconfig question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.115943.21227@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Sender: thomas@mipsbx.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan11.104907.3631@iiasa.ac.at>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:59:43 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.104907.3631@iiasa.ac.at>, herb@iiasa.ac.at (Herb HASLER) writes:
- |>Can someone tell me what the DYNPROTO flag from 'ifconfig ln0' on a
- |>DECstation 5000/200 (Ultrix 4.2) refers to exactly. There is no mention
- |>of it in the man pages and the only reference I could find to it was in
- |>net/if.h
- |>
- |>#define IFF_DYNPROTO 0x400 /* support dynamic proto dispatching */
- |>
- |>What is dynamic proto dispatching?
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- It's the mechanism used in net/net/net_common.c and data/if_to_proto_data.c.
- It was put in for DECnet, LAT, and DLI. It maps a ethernet protocol to a
- protosw entry.
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