From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: Best way to hook incoming eth pkts? Date: 20 Aug 2003 10:48:17 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <1061401697.12293.8.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> References: <20030820154727.GB9119@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <20030820154727.GB9119@gtf.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:47, Jeff Garzik wrote: > ATA-over-ethernet has its own > IANA-registered ethernet type, but netconsole and netdump are using > IP/UDP instead of a custom ethernet protocol. This is useful, because it minimises the work needed to get them going over other transports, such as Myrinet. I'd rather not see the UDP encapsulation go away. Netconsole is already messy enough to configure and deal with; Matt Mackall's 2.6 forward port, that makes configuration more IP-oriented instead of less, is a step in the right direction.