Re: Best way to hook incoming eth pkts?

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:48:17AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:47, Jeff Garzik wrote:

quoted

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.

Configuration has zero to do with the protocol of choice.

I fully agree that current RH netconsole/netdump configuration is
positively awful...

	Jeff