Does Open Look run over Ethernet?

Steve Friedl friedl at mtndew.Tustin.CA.US
Fri Oct 5 15:02:05 AEST 1990


I write:
> I have been told by a generally reliable source that X works over
> Starlan but not over Ethernet (we are using the cheapernet tap).

I have since found out that my source is not so reliable.  It
turns out that the Open Look stuff comes expecting to talk to the
Interlan TCP/IP driver via /dev/it (found in the Xconnections
file), and the Wollongong driver uses /dev/tcp instead.  Changing
this around fixed everything.

Thanks to the several people who sent notes saying that this was
possible, and especially to Viet Hoang from AT&T Denver whose
several email notes helped us make it all work.

I love the net.

     Steve

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