Subject: Re: firewire of FreeBSD
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: FUKAUMI Naoki <naoki@fukaumi.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/15/2005 00:24:45
Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> According to description of their eui64(3), theses functions are
> "IEEE EUI-64 conversion and lookup routines," so we should think
> which other utility could use such functions.
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/net/eui64.3
> 
> I don't know what is EUI64, but netinet6/in6_ifattach.c contains
> some EUI64 definitions. So could other network programs use it?

eui64(3) is used for simplify expression of the EUI64 address of the
target firewire system.

eui64(3) is used by fwcontrol(8) and dconschat(8) only. dconschat(8)
provides a way for users to access dumb console device on a local/remote
system via firewire bus.

Regards,

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FUKAUMI Naoki