Date: Sat, 7 Dec 96 21:45:19 +0700 From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <AD_BOgomq0@vas.tomsk.su> References: <199612060041.RAA10482@xmission.xmission.com>
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> % The simplest solution may be to buy a cheap ethernet card and give > % that a permanent address, say 192.168.1.1. Give this interface > % a name in your /etc/hosts file and make this the system name. > > > This is a wonderful idea. Thanks a lot. > > > > However, do you think it will work even if the ethernet card is > > not physically connected with another one? And how can I make > > sure that this address is not visible to the outside world when > > I use ppp? > > Sure. The smallest ethernet you can have is 1 node. If you're using A great idea has just occured to me :-) In Windows NT there is a software emulator of an ethernet card. You can assign an address to it and work as if you had a real ethernet card. If someone could write a similar driver for FreeBSD it would be just great. I wish I were a programmer myself. > % UNIX is showing its age in this area; the mapping between the > % system name and multiple, perhaps temporary IP addresses is not > % well thought out. Do you think someone could write such a driver? Is there a demand? I think such a driver would be useful for a lot of FreeBSD people. --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912
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