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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: tcp/ip support and the Makefile of 0.99
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:25:59 GMT
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- Ammo Goettsch (ammo@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
- : I disabled TCP/IP throught the "make config" option of the kernel Makefile
- : for version 0.99. In .../net/Makefile, it still wants to link in
- : tcp/tcpip.o, which of course had not been compiled, since the make file
- : in .../net/tcp never gets executed ifndef CONFIG_TCPIP.
- :
- : Is the link line in the make file wrong or should it have been compiled?
- :
- : Also, what will happen if I compile TCP/IP but have no network card?
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- it will produce an error on bootup about being unable to find the hardware,
- tcp functions will still work through the loopback device
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