From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 25 3:53: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ksmail.netcologne.de (ksmail.netcologne.de [194.8.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579D737B718 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 03:52:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-195-14-244-12.netcologne.de [195.14.244.12]) by ksmail.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15187; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:52:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.11.0/8.11.3) id f2PBr1X01670; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:53:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:53:01 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200103251153.f2PBr1X01670@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: garyj@jennejohn.org Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, david@catwhisker.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <01032514065304.00626@peedub.muc.de> (message from Gary Jennejohn on Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:06:53 +0200) Subject: Re: make world stops during i4b compilation Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: <200103242219.f2OMJ2306280@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200103242311.f2ONBC538196@oranje.my.domain> <01032514065304.00626@peedub.muc.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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