From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 5 10:52:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA24336 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:52:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA24324; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:52:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (dialin1.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.254.101]) by anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA07329; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:51:55 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:51:24 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: Paul Traina cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: metricom & freebsd In-Reply-To: <199712051801.KAA19096@precipice.shockwave.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Could anyone explain what STAR mode is? On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Traina wrote: > > From: Doug White > Subject: Re: metricom & freebsd > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Traina wrote: > > > Has anyone done a Metricom star mode driver for FreeBSD? > > (Star mode is the higher speed packet-oriented mode, Linux has a driver). > > Is there even a starmode driver for Windows? I'm using plain-old Dial Up > on my Win95 laptop. > > No. > > If you want to try and hack something I'll volunteer to test it. I wonder > if i[ij][ij]ppp would be a good place to start; tun0 seems like a good > target interface. > > Yes, iijppp is a good place to test it out. Unfortunately I have > neither the time nor the spare group of modems to actually write > and debug it. I was asking more for curiosity sake. It's too bad > Metricom doesn't offer IP over STAR mode as a service, that would > immediately make it interesting. >