[SLL] Rant: ATA-over-Ethernet 0x88a2

[Andrew Sweger]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, David J. Pfaltzgraff wrote:

> So, even though their type may be IEEE registered, it would appear that
> they may be holding the protocol cards close to the chest.

Not at all.

http://www.coraid.com/documents/AoEr8.txt

> Anyway, to answer the main question, somewhere in the bowels of the
> protocol stack, there is a point where the kernel looks at the ethernet
> type and decides as to whether or not this is IP traffic. At this point,
> if the type is 0x88A2 control would be handed over to the AoE modules. I
> guess libpcap may be one way to do this, but it shouldn't be necessary to
> go into userland.

But not going into userland means going into the spooky kernelland where I
hear all kinds of monsters live that will bite you.

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.