From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 30 09:24:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02610 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from schubert.promo.de (schubert.Promo.DE [194.45.188.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02480 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@promo.de) Received: from stefan.promo.de (stefan.Promo.DE [194.45.188.81]) by schubert.promo.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA20829; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:20:41 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:22:30 +0200 From: "Stefan Bethke" To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: pseudo-Ethernet driver (was Ethernet address takeover...) Message-ID: <34544.3102949350@stefan.promo.de> X-Mailer: Mulberry Demo (MacOS) [1.4.0a3, s/n Evaluation] X-Licensed-To: Unlicensed - for evaluation only MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Don, 30. Apr 1998 9:31 Uhr -0400 sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: > P.S. Does somebody need the loopback pseudo-Ethernet driver ? It's the > thing that allows to make network connections from pcemu, and is > also very useful for debugging the network code without having a > real network (like I do at home). Probably the network support can also > be added to doscmd. I have submitted it a while (~1.5 years) ago > but it was not committed at this time although the patches for pcemu > were. Yes, please. This is also very helpful for netatalk, because you need at least two interfaces (besides lo) to have certain network options at all. -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-18 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message