Re: [plex86] brain fart regarding networking

[James Mastros]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:32:19PM +0000, John Berthels wrote:
> I think UML (User Mode Linux - http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ )
> uses a PPP link for this. (Ah...just checked, it uses a SLIP link) Would
> it work if you write a serial device (is that a simpler option than
> writing a dummy ethernet card?)?
Yes, it is indeed.  In fact, it's already done.
Interesting that we're back here -- this was the original plan I expressed.

The problem is that running over PPP means that we take a lot of interupts,
and we've got overhead from PPP on both ends.  Interupts are very expensive
in our architecture.

    -=- James Mastros
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