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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:25:17 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.kuzbass.ru>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        qa@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/33833
Message-ID:  <3C43A11D.B9534992@www.kuzbass.ru>
References:  <20020114134043.P1215-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White wrote:

> > Please review http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/33833.
> > There is an example of breaking POLA and it's even not documented yet.
> 
> 'pseudo-device ether' has generally been required since the beginning of
> time. It's certainly needed for ppp since it sets up a ether-like
> interface.

It's wrong. It was not required for 4.4-RELEASE & kernel level ppp.
I've noticed this change after cvsup when my working kernel failed to rebuild.

> If you compiled without DUMMYNET you wouldn't run into the problem, btw.

Of course, but DUMMYNET is required for some applications.

Eugene Grosbein

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