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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