From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 21:53:58 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA27783 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA27778 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA02045; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:55:42 GMT Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa21309; 8 Dec 96 1:02 EST Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 01:02:57 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: "Victor A. Sudakov" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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. I believe thats what localhost is isnt it?