In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David 
Scheidt writes:
: :I was thinking about porting netbsd's if_strip driver (the driver for the
: :metricom ricochet radios--allows you to use these radios as nodes in a WLAN).
: :Before I do this, I thought I should first check to see if anyone else had
: :already ported it to FreeBSD...?
: 
: Are these useful now that metricom has shut down?

Some versions of the metricom modems would allow point to point
communications when they weren't on the merticom net.  I don't know if
this driver is for one of these or not, but it might not be a bad
thing to do if so.  I'll be there will be a lot of cheap modems on the 
market soon.  Sierra evidentally got stiffed for $10M in inventory of
these modems.  They should be appearing on the surplus market soon...


Wanrer

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