From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 25 4:17:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B5337B71A for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 04:17:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.com by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14h9SU-0005GX-02; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:17:22 +0200 Received: from peedub.muc.de (320038014727-0001@[217.80.40.53]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 14h9SH-2CyHPEC; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:17:09 +0200 Received: (from garyj@localhost) by peedub.muc.de (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2PDHAg02985; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:17:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gary Jennejohn Reply-To: garyj@jennejohn.org To: Marc van Woerkom Subject: Re: make world stops during i4b compilation Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:17:10 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: david@catwhisker.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200103242219.f2OMJ2306280@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <01032514065304.00626@peedub.muc.de> <200103251153.f2PBr1X01670@oranje.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <200103251153.f2PBr1X01670@oranje.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032515171006.00626@peedub.muc.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: 320038014727-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 25 March 2001 13:53, Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > i4b is an ethernet interface, how do you think PPP/HDLC works ? The > > interface is registered with the networking stack, just like a "real" > > networking card is. This make the ether device mandatory. > > Hi Gary! > > I simply lack knowledge of how network devices are organized. > > It might have been possible that network devices exist, that > don't belong to that class of ethernet interfaces. > > I believed that i4b might be such a device, as I can't remember > pulling in "ether" in my older kernel configs. > well, it seems that I'm wrong. Hellmuth Michaelis tells me that it _should_ be possible to use i4b without ether. Looks like this is a bug. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message