Patch to ignore a few invalid interface types

[Ted Lemon]

On Sep 26, 2005, at 11:27 AM, David W. Hankins wrote:
> Out of curiosity, shouldn't the IEEE1394 changes be an optional  
> behaviour?
> Probably defaulting to ignore.  Or am I wrong in thinking that one  
> might
> get their address on a firewire network via dhcp?

In fact it's very much a part of the protocol to be able to get an IP  
address on a firewire interface.   There's even an RFC that describes  
how to construct client identifiers for firewire.   However, in  
practice I think most computers with firewire interfaces are not  
using the firewire interface as a network interface.   So it makes  
sense that by default it's not enabled, although that creates an  
assymmetry that people have to deal with if they *do* want to use the  
firewire interface for networking.