Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:17:10 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de> Cc: david@catwhisker.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world stops during i4b compilation Message-ID: <01032515171006.00626@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <200103251153.f2PBr1X01670@oranje.my.domain> References: <200103242219.f2OMJ2306280@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <01032514065304.00626@peedub.muc.de> <200103251153.f2PBr1X01670@oranje.my.domain>
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On Sunday 25 March 2001 13:53, Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > 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. > well, it seems that I'm wrong. Hellmuth Michaelis tells me that it _should_ be possible to use i4b without ether. Looks like this is a bug. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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