Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:08:42 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, docs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upcoming 4.7-RELEASE: unresolved issue Message-ID: <20020822210842.A6944@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <200208221251.g7MCpMJc017651@spoon.beta.com>; from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:51:22AM -0400 References: <3D64CC1B.58680655@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <200208221251.g7MCpMJc017651@spoon.beta.com>
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:51:22AM -0400, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I somewhat disagree with this as a bug. May be so. Anyway, ethernet was not mandatory in 4.4-RELEASE for pure PPP operations. > AFAIK, "ether" is the base Ethernet > subsystem, and it has always been needed for DUMMYNET, No. I used my home dialup machine with DUMMYNET from 3.2-R to 4.4-R without ether in my kernel. I do not insist that this dependancy must be removed but it must be documented at least. > as well as for PPP > (and most other networking). As a matter of fact, DUMMYNET also depends on > most of the IPFW firewall code being in, too. It needs IPFW for sure but it did not need ether. > A system without the ether pseudo-device is pretty useless, networking wise. Think of PPP-only networking. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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