> > FreeBSD
> > -------
> >
> > struct ether_addr {
> >
> > u_char octet[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
> > } __packed;
> >
> > struct ether_header {
> > u_char ether_dhost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
> > u_char ether_shost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
> > u_short ether_type;
> > } __packed;
> >
>
> Unfortunate. While the idea seems good, I think the structures being different
> on the different OS's is a problem that need to be solved before we make such
> a change.
The different BSD variants have different definitions (ie NetBSD different than
FreeBSD)
Since the data structures are conformant, the other possiblity
is adding ether_ntoa family prototypes to rte_ether.h
