Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:25:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: metricom & freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971205120658.6697E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712051801.KAA19096@precipice.shockwave.com>
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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
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