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Re: Important peripherals..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Mar 14 04:22:01 1996

From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: dabn100@hermes.cam.ac.uk (D.A.B. Niggemann)
Date: 	Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:10:43 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960311221048.10323A-100000@hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk> from "D.A.B. Niggemann" at Mar 11, 96 11:23:28 pm

> > 	st.st_family=AF_TELEX;
> > 	strcpy(st.st_address,phonenumber);
> > 	s=socket(AF_TELEX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> > 	bind(s,&st,sizeof(st));
> Ok Ok Ok. No need to be pedantic......

You should of course not forget that you can run IP over Telex...

> Not fair! (well, yeah, maybe) I've had about 5-7 requests for this driver 
> in a year. Not much really. But it _is_ a better card than  the 3c501!

Definitely. Though I can touch 120Kbytes/second with a 3c501 ;)

> Now to all those people with 3c507s lurking on the linux-net list (hopefully)
> Could you please mail me so I can send you a test version of the new driver,
> if you're willing to test it, that is?
> I'd love it if somebody could test multicast/promisc too.
> Please suggest where else I could make this public (Donald Becker, are 
> you listening?)

ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/Incoming and if it passes a couple of tests how about
asking on COLA

Alan



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