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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:50:56 -0700
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx and local file systems
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On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 15:00 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> my inclination would be to give 9vx a proper
> ethernet device, but that idea has been discussed
> already.

I was about to ask this very question (and say THANK YOU
to Russ for another awesome piece of software), but now
that you've mentioned it could you, please, elaborate
on why implementing proper ethernet was rejected?

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. Either that or just a pointer to the existing
discussion ;-)