From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 12 16:46:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16744 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:46:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16731 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:46:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08179; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:14:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901121743.JAA04999@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:15:30 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Cc: "Eric J. Chet" , Andreas Braukmann , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Jan-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ooohh... dnet. I remember dnet. Yah, there were a few byte ordering > problems. There was also a bug somewhere in the protocol that I never > was able to track down. That was also my first attempt at using SIGIO. > What a disaster! A lot of people managed to get it to work, though, and > I would occassionally get an email from some unix system administrator > asking me what the frig was the little process his users were leaving > running in the background! Heh heh. Yep.. I battled with it and LOST! Evil prgram! :) Then along came SLirp and TIA, and PPP stacks.. All these modern conveniences.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message