From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 11:14:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA04376 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:14:04 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA04368 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:14:02 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA25620; Thu, 20 Apr 95 11:47:29 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504201747.AA25620@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Q: Does anyone know about implementing LAT support? To: matt@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 11:47:29 MDT Cc: osyjm@cdsnet.net, root@deadline.snafu.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504201028.KAA10181@whydos.lkg.dec.com> from "Matt Thomas" at Apr 20, 95 10:28:21 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have about half a DECnet kernel written (source compatible with > DECnet-ULTRIX at the socket and library level). One of the problems > is that none of the LAN drivers support multiple physical addresses. > Nor is there is a way to enable a different physical address. Tell me this can be distributed as free software... Do you really require multiple physical addresses, or just need to reprogram the one physical address to match the DECNet address? I thought multiple addresses were only necessary to put up cluster specific addresses. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.