From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 28 9:22:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A8A37B40C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.3/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id LAA88126; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:22:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200109281622.LAA88126@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: 127/8 continued To: barney@databus.com (Barney Wolff) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:22:49 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010928121518.A90242@tp.databus.com> from "Barney Wolff" at Sep 28, 2001 12:15:18 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Joe, does this work on an Ethernet used as a point-to-point, with > a crossover cable? That would actually be quite useful, but I'd > be pleasantly surprised if it works now. No, since the OS does not see it as a point-to-point link, even if there are just the two nodes on it. I do not think there's any technical reason it couldn't be done though, if someone wanted to write a point-to-point mod for the ethernet drivers. -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message