Subject: Re: Ethernet Woes
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/12/1996 20:54:57
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:42:00 -0600 (CST)
"The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood]" <davagatw@Mars.utm.edU> wrote:
> > Rob,
> > The bad news:
> > None of the SCSI ethernet adaptors (Cabletron, Xircom, and
> > Dayna models come to mine) are currently supported.
>
> What about the tunneling packet driver thing that was mentioned on the
> list? I never was able to figure out how to get the kernel to handle the
> tun0 driver, I suspect that support has to be compiled into the kernel,
> and I didn't have the hard drive space, but supposedly, that worked on
> some cabletron SCSI-ethernet box.
Phil Bunde (sp?), I believe, worked on a userland driver for the
Cabletron interface. He did this work on a pc532. It should be
pretty easy to implement a kernel driver based on that work.
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