Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:53:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de> To: garyj@jennejohn.org Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, david@catwhisker.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world stops during i4b compilation Message-ID: <200103251153.f2PBr1X01670@oranje.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <01032514065304.00626@peedub.muc.de> (message from Gary Jennejohn on Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:06:53 %2B0200) References: <200103242219.f2OMJ2306280@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200103242311.f2ONBC538196@oranje.my.domain> <01032514065304.00626@peedub.muc.de>
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> i4b is an ethernet interface, how do you think PPP/HDLC works ? The > interface is registered with the networking stack, just like a "real" > networking card is. This make the ether device mandatory. Hi Gary! I simply lack knowledge of how network devices are organized. It might have been possible that network devices exist, that don't belong to that class of ethernet interfaces. I believed that i4b might be such a device, as I can't remember pulling in "ether" in my older kernel configs. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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