Subject: Re: anyone using fxp with INET6?
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/14/2000 19:15:13
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:00:11 +0900
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> wrote:
> initialization code (which initializes multicast setup from within
> the kernel and may not allow interrupt to come, makes fxp
> initialization fail).
>
> I wonder if it applies to netbsd as well. I got workaround for this
> and imported into kame/openbsd and openbsd-current (basically
> decreases spl level during IPv6 interface initialization).
> I'm willing to apply it if anyone seeing problems with fxp.
> If noone is having problems, I do not bother:-)
If that's why it fails, NetBSD should not have that problem; I changed
the fxp driver to poll for completion of the multicast setup command, as
it simplified other parts of the code.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>