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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Ethernet-like loopback & IPX
From:       "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin () hq ! icb ! chel ! su>
Date:       1996-07-23 2:27:32
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> 
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > By the way, I have fixed the bug (in my opinion) in IPX. It allowed
> > > only one link-level (i.e. Ethernet) address for all interfaces.
> > > Was it a real bug or feature ?
> > > 
> > 
> > It is a leftover from its XNS days. If you send me the patches for
> > IPX, I will look it over and commit it.
> 
> It's not a bug, but a feature.  Having a single address for your
> end-station make quite a few other weirdnesses in the protocol stack
> and application just go away.

But if you have a single address you need to set it for all
Ethernet cards or they will not accept the packets with this
address. The current implementation does not do this and I
think that it's not a very good idea.

-SB

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