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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Problems with PLIP driver?
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"Well, lets keep in mind that PLIP is a disgusting thing in the first
 place, but as we all know, in certain circumstances that may not matter."

    -Poul-Henning Kamp, noted FreeBSD developer


(I'm sorry - I saved this a few months ago and put it into my .plan and
just couldn't help but resurrect it after a peek in the code :)

-c

On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Bill Fenner wrote:

> I'm wrong, it's more than just the header.  I went through this in
> great detail quite a while ago.  Look at ppp and tun for hints,
> you probably have to change the bpf_attach() call too.  And I'd
> move the bpf_mtap() in the output routine way up to the top,
> since right now it completely misses the LINK0 case, and even
> if it doesn't the output routine has already zeroed out the length
> field in each mbuf in the chain.
> 
> Fun fun.
> 
>   Bill
>