> 
>  > Or remove the IFF_NOTRAILERS flag totally, it's use is deprecated anyway.
>  > The only thing is that trailer packets must be received, which doesn't
>  > work quite well right now. That should actually be a compile-time option or
>  > something like TCP_COMPAT_42.
> 
> AFAIK, we currently don't handle trailer packet reception AT ALL.  At least,
> I can't see any code for it in ether_input().
> 
That's exactly what I meant :-) I have some machines available that can
only send trailers, so I will look at this later this summer.

-- Ragge