Documentation/networking/arcnet.rst

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9    See also arcnet-hardware.txt in this directory for jumper-setting
25 ARCnet 0.32 ALPHA first made it into the Linux kernel 1.1.80 - this was
36    If you don't e-mail me about your success/failure soon, I may be forced to
40    If you think so, why not flame me in a quick little e-mail?  Please also
44    My e-mail address is: apenwarr@worldvisions.ca
55 The previous release resulted from many months of on-and-off effort from me
58 ARCnet 2.10 ALPHA, Tomasz's all-new-and-improved RFC1051 support has been
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68 list, mail to linux-arcnet@tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl.
74 The people on linux-net@vger.kernel.org (now defunct, replaced by
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105 versions are available on my WWW page, or via e-mail if you don't have WWW
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146 This is the new chipset from SMC with support for promiscuous mode (packet
163 to, then they won't interest you - forget them.
165  3. ARCnet COM90xx chipset in IO-mapped mode.
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231 Go read the NET-2-HOWTO and ETHERNET-HOWTO for Linux; they should be
233 souped-up (or down, as the case may be) Ethernet card.
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255 	insmod -o arc0 com90xx
256 	insmod -o arc1 com20020 io=0x2e0
257 	insmod -o arc2 com90xx
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266 	Should be fine linux->linux, just pretend you're using Ethernet cards.
268 	is also a DOS-based NFS server called SOSS.  It doesn't multitask
302 	interface quite nicely with TCP/IP-based WfWg or Lan Manager
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335 "virtual network device":
347 	arc0e	"Ethernet-Encapsulation" which sends packets over ARCnet
349 		6-byte hardware addresses.  This protocol is compatible with
374 You can choose not to compile arc0e and arc0s into the driver if you want -
376 use the "NFS-root" stuff in recent Linux kernels.
380 ifconfig the other virtual devices you need.  There are a number of ways you
395 	route add -net SUB.NET.ADD.RESS arc0
403 	route add -net SUB.NET.ADD.RESS arc0e
408 2. More than one protocol on the same wire.
428 	- talk to freedom via RFC1201 (arc0) protocol, because I like it
430 	- use freedom as its Internet gateway.
473    I compensate by giving freedom an extra IP address - aliased 'gatekeeper' -
497    In this mode it would be impossible for insight to communicate directly
499    Ethernet-Encap.  Without changing any settings on freedom or patience, I
504    For those who like diagrams, I have created two "virtual subnets" on the
505    same physical ARCnet wire.  You can picture it like this::
508 	  [RFC1201 NETWORK]                   [ETHER-ENCAP NETWORK]
512 	  /---------------\         *            /---------------\
514 	  |               +-Freedom-*-Gatekeeper-+               |
516 	  \-------+-------/    |    *            \-------+-------/
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549 first!  D_DURING displays 4-5 lines for each packet sent or received.  D_TX,
565 Ping-pong buffers are implemented both ways.
588 E-mail me about your problem.
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