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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:25:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Subject: Re: metricom & freebsd 
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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.

I need to re-read the starmode docs.  I figured you could tweak it to dial
into your gateway.  Or is that type of functionality not supported yet?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major