From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 26 10:43:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from diarmadhi.mushhaven.net (diarmadhi.mushhaven.net [216.150.202.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814DE37B40F for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mistwolf@localhost) by diarmadhi.mushhaven.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f8QHgrT65456; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:42:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mistwolf) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:42:53 -0400 From: Jamie Norwood To: Joe Abley Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , Jamie Norwood , David Wolfskill , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Message-ID: <20010926134253.A65444@mushhaven.net> References: <20010924094048.X5906-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <3BB0A0A2.6CCC454B@chrisland.net> <20010926103827.S37693@buffoon.automagic.org> <20010926133747.Y37693@buffoon.automagic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010926133747.Y37693@buffoon.automagic.org>; from jabley@automagic.org on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:37:48PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:37:48PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:04:26AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > Thanks for your responses, David, Jamie, and Joe. > > > > Sorry for the whining; I had intended to withhold it until I had my > > story better organized. But I'm just frustrated, after reading several > > networking books, many articles, and man pages repeatedly, having a > > three-sigma IQ and over 20 years of computing , yet still have to resort > > to experimental methods to get a working network of only 3 computers. > > It's not so confounding once you get the hang of it. The fundamentals > are actually refreshingly simple; you just need to not let yourself > get bogged down in the implementation details. > > If you'd like to describe in as simple terms as possible what you're > trying to achieve, I'd be happy to work through it with you. Maybe > off-list, unless you think there is some general issue that needs > publicising. I'd be interested in keeping in on this, I am curious as to the situation and how it is being handled. I do networking for a living, so love being in on odd things. Jamie > > > Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message