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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: IPX now available
To: matt@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 14:16:23 -0700 (MST)
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> Loadable network drivers is one of the harder problems because of how
> tightly inter-dependent all the various components currently are.  Even
> though Digital UNIX has solved a great many of the problem of LKMs, 
> they still don't support loadable network drivers.
> 
> One adavantage of the current blurred layers is efficency and it would
> be a shame to lose that when going to loadable future.

Amen!


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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