Re: Quick NetBEUI question
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Jul 1998 02:51:36 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980727231650.29864C-100000@frank.watsons.edin.sch.uk>
By author: Alistair Riddell <alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> That's too bad.
>
> > How is the NetBEUI support coming along? Will I be happy or do I
> > have to continue making manual backups?
>
> It was removed altogether from the kernel a while back because the code
> that was there did not work and was so broken it was not likely to ever
> work. I think the general consensus was the protocol sucked so hard that
> it was not worth supporting.
>
> This seems a shame as Linux supports a lot of other things that suck but
> there you go.
>
You may still be able to do it in user space using a raw packet
socket, though.
-hpa
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