[mcnet4l-devel] Re: [PATCH] net-tools: generic eui64

[Daniel S. <st...@in...>]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 02:56, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> > this adds support for 64-bit EUI hardware addressing.
> 
> I have commited the patch. Can you send me a reference, where those Hardware
> identifiers are actually used?
> 
> Greetings
> Bernd

thanx a lot. i'd thought it got ignored :)

ARPHRD_EUI64=27 is assigned at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/arp-parameters

as you're probably aware of, it's actually not a hardware type by its
own, but the applied addressing model:
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/tutorials/

i'm currently developing a prototype for a link layer protocol
specification (PICMG2.14) for embedded devices communicating in shared
memory on CompactPCI backplanes, which makes use of above 64-bit
addressing. The specification is available at:
http://www.picmg.org/specdirectory.stm

The project is still pretty alpha stage, available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcnet4l

since iana seems to have no problem assigning addressing identifiers to
arp hardware headers (as opposed to protocol identifiers), i'd thought
it should be ok for net-tools to recognize this type. I currently have
no directly assigned number available for PICMG2.14, and there generally
seems to be no other supported id for reading/configuring 64-bit
hardware addresses.


best regards,
dns