On Mar 27, Matthias Drochner wrote
> Excerpts from netbsd: 24-Mar-98 NetBSD master CVS tree commits The S. of
> A. Evil@netbsd (240)
> 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	if_atmsubr.c 
> > Log Message:
> > Add a missing ntohs. With this change I got ip over atm (vpi/vci) working
> > between 2 PCs.
> 
> This looks wrong - or at least it is not as it was planned to work.
> The ATM_LLC_TYPE() macro does already the byte swap.
> (look at the changes for r1.8 and r1.9)
> Perhaps there is something wrong at the sender's side?
> (Can't test it now, but IP via encapsulation used to work for
> me prevoiusly, even to different boxes (Sun/FORE and DEC)).

Ok, some more details here:
[note: this is from 1.3_ALPHA sources - it's all what I have under hands 
 for now]

from if_atm.h:
#define ATM_LLC_TYPE(X) (((X)->type[0] << 8) | ((X)->type[1]))
#define ATM_LLC_SETTYPE(X,V) { \
        (X)->type[0] = ((V) >> 8) & 0xff; \
        (X)->type[1] = ((V) & 0xff); \
}

So these macros takes or return type value in host byte order.
Now from if_atmsubr.c: in atm_output(), we have:
	etype = htons(ETHERTYPE_IP);
and thenm later etype is feed to ATM_LLC_SETTYPE:
         bcopy(ATMLLC_HDR, atmllc->llchdr, 
              sizeof(atmllc->llchdr));
         ATM_LLC_SETTYPE(atmllc, etype);
              /* note: already in network order */

There is something wrong here. Now this may have been corrected
in -current. I'm sure this was not correct in 1.3 too, as IP over ATM
didn't work without my (wrong) patch.

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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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