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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


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