RFC 1044 IP on Network Systems HYPERchannel February 1988 TABLE OF CONTENTS Status of this memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Goals of this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Basic HYPERchannel network messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Basic (16-bit address) Message Proper header . . . . . . . . . 5 TO addresses and open driver architecture . . . . . . . . . . 7 Extended (32-bit address) Message Proper header . . . . . . . . 8 Address Recognition and message forwarding . . . . . . . . . . 10 32-bit message fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Broadcasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Basic (16-bit) Message Encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Compatibility with existing implementations . . . . . . . . . . 21 Extended (32-bit) Message Encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Address Resolution Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Maximum Transmission Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 ADDRESS RESOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Local Address Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Configuration file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 ARP servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Broadcast ARP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Appendix A. NSC Product Architecture and Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Appendix B. Network Systems HYPERchannel protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Hardwick & Lekashman