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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:15:30 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@bazzle.com>, Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Subject:   Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990113111530.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199901121743.JAA04999@apollo.backplane.com>

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On 12-Jan-99 Matthew Dillon wrote:
>       Ooohh... dnet.  I remember dnet.  Yah, there were a few byte ordering
>       problems.  There was also a bug somewhere in the protocol that I never
>       was able to track down.  That was also my first attempt at using SIGIO.
>       What a disaster!  A lot of people managed to get it to work, though, and
>       I would occassionally get an email from some unix system administrator
>       asking me what the frig was the little process his users were leaving
>       running in the background!  Heh heh.

Yep.. I battled with it and LOST! Evil prgram! :)
Then along came SLirp and TIA, and PPP stacks.. All these modern conveniences..

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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