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Re: IPXCP in PPP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Nov 5 00:37:37 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 13:13:04 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alanh@pinacl.co.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511040323.TAA23942@netcom12.netcom.com> from "Al Longyear" at Nov 3, 95 07:23:52 pm
> There is a problem with the 1.3 networking code because, for some
> reason, the skb->protocol field is not initialized properly. I keed
> getting protocol numbers of 0xC4 or other strange values when the
> frame really contains IP.
>
> Perhaps Alan Cox has a fix for this. If not, I will explore this further.
skb->protocol is only currently defined for received frames. If you want
to use it on sends, then set it in your build_header function.
Alan
