Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:22:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: barney@databus.com (Barney Wolff) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Message-ID: <200109281622.LAA88126@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <20010928121518.A90242@tp.databus.com> from "Barney Wolff" at Sep 28, 2001 12:15:18 PM
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> 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
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