Sebastien Roy writes: > > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 07:23 -0500, James Carlson wrote: > > Technically, PPP links have an L2 address length of exactly zero. > > > > But I can't say I was expecting the MAC layer to support anything > > other than Ethernet for quite some time. > > I was, since the MAC layer supported MACs with arbitrary MAC lengths > (including 0) prior to build 105. I did a significant amount of work a > few years back to make sure that all (or at least most, since VLANs were > still a wart in dls) references to Ethernet and MAC address lengths and > other MAC-type-specific concepts were removed from the framework and > placed into the plugin modules.
OK ... it was the VLAN and aggr references (some of which seem to run pretty deep) that had me convinced that MAC wouldn't be ready for PPP for a while. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
