From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 8 11:08:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA20880 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 11:08:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA20875 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 11:08:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id CAA02262; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 02:07:54 +0700 Received: (from victor@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA01087; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:20:08 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, shovey@buffnet.net References: Message-ID: Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 13:20:08 +0700 X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. 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? I do not think so. AFAIK localhost in FreeBSD cannot have an arbitrary address, only 127.0.0.1 I was told that in Windows NT the software emulator can have an arbitrary address. A person who is running an NT Server told me. --- 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