On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> this is all a little out of my area, but is there an advantage to doing ring
> negotiation in software (other than relieving the firmware coders the extra
> hassle, not that that's what they are paid for or anythgin)

Hum... it's good to do much of this stuff in userland. Look at the IPv6
rtadvd and so on...

ABS

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