[SAGE-AU] Re: [Talk] Re: Network Simulater

[Tim Bell]

On Wed 13 Nov 2002 at 17:47:38 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:17:29PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:07:35PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor scrawled:
> > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 14:00, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > >
> > > > IIRC it's a standard kernel config option if you enable
> > > > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
> > >
> > > .. for what OS? :)
> >
> > How many have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL as kernel options? ;)
> >
> > IIRC it's in Network Devices.
> 
> I administer four completely different types of unix daily, and
> occasionally meddle with things like VMS, OS/2, MacOs 7-9 and X, and
> some old systems still running DOS5/6. In all of these I've never
> seen that particular kernel option. Aha! Therefore I conclude that it
> must be a Microsoft thing. But I wouldn't expect everyone here to have
> broad enough experience to be able to work that out like I did :-)

I think your conclusion may be false.

> It's easy to forget our diversity and neglect to mention the OS
> we're talking about, and I have done it myself a few times. No shame
> in that, a heartfelt "oops" and the incident is forogtten. Jeez, if we
> can't confess ignorance or fix a mistake and get over it in this forum,
> where _can_ we?

I think that much of the confusion in this thread has resulted from
differing ideas of exactly what "this" forum is.  If you look at the
"To:" line, you'll see that the question and replies were posted to (in
order of decreasing OS diversity):

  - SAGE-AU (System Administrators Guild of Australia)
  - AUUG (Australian UNIX [and Open Systems] Users Group)
  - LUV (Linux Users of Victoria)

In one of those forums, "kernel" needs no clarification; in the others,
it does.  It's important to recognize the audience being addressed.

Tim.
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Tim Bell  --  bhat at trinity.unimelb.edu.au  --  System Administrator
Trinity College, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia