Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 13:20:08 +0700 From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, shovey@buffnet.net Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <ABOubgoi21@vas.tomsk.su> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961208010229.19555J-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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> > > > > > Sure. The smallest ethernet you can have is 1 node. If you're using > > > > A great idea has just occured to me :-) > > > > In Windows NT there is a software emulator of an ethernet card. > > You can assign an address to it and work as if you had a real > > ethernet card. > > > > If someone could write a similar driver for FreeBSD it would be > > just great. I wish I were a programmer myself. > > I believe thats what localhost is isnt it? I do not think so. AFAIK localhost in FreeBSD cannot have an arbitrary address, only 127.0.0.1 I was told that in Windows NT the software emulator can have an arbitrary address. A person who is running an NT Server told me. --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912
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