Re: setting LAA in token ring

Prasanta Sadhukhan (prasanta@tataelxsi.co.in)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:54:07 +0530


Mike Phillips wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:31:42AM +0530 or sometime in the same epoch, Prasanta Sadhukhan scribbled:
> > Hi,
> > Our cardbus driver supports LAA but when
> > we are giving this command 'ifconfig tr0 hw tr 4000DEADBEEF' but we are
> > getting
> > SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
> >
> > Is there any prerequisites fot this command to be given?
> >
>
> There is a requirement for certain bit in the MSB to be set, bit 6 of 7
> iirc.
>
> Also, there is an issue with ifconfig and TR. During the 2.3 dev kernels
> we changed the IEEE type of TR from 6 to a value in the 800 range. This
> was done when multicast support was added as we needed to split out TR
> from the other 802 protocols.
>
> ifconfig and friends didn't realize this and barf because the return
> type is wrong. I've tried submitting patches to net-tools for this
> several times, but it wasn't fixed. It may be by now, but don't quote me
> on it.

But the LAA feature was working in RH 7.1 which is kernel 2.4.2-2
So why suddenly this feature is returning Invalid argument in 7.2 7.3 and 8.0.
Does it mean SIOCSIFHWADDR is not supported in the kernel

>
>
> Mike Phillips
> Linux Token Ring Project
> http://www.linuxtr.net
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
|            __    __          | Tata Elxsi Ltd         |
|           / ,, /| |'-.       | http://www.tataelxsi.com             |
|          .\__/ || |   |      |===================================== |
|       _ /  `._ \|_|_.-'      | Prasanta Sadhukhan                   |
|      | /  \__.`=._) (_       |  mailto:prasanta_sadhukhan@yahoo.com |
|      |/ ._/  |"""""""""|     |  Bangalore                           |
|      |'.  `\ |         |     |  India                               |
|      ;"""/ / |         |     |                                      |
|       ) /_/| |.-------.|     |                                      |
|      '  `-`' "         "     |                                      |
----------------------------------------------------------------------

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/