Hamachi Gb ethernet drivers under 2.2 kernel?!

Felix Rauch rauch at inf.ethz.ch
Wed Jul 12 08:55:59 PDT 2000


On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Steven Timm wrote:
> We have a couple of Packet Engines "Hamachi" GB ethernet cards for the
> head nodes
> of our cluster.  They worked OK under 2.0 kernels with a driver
> that was available on the web.  But there doesn't seem to be any 2.2
> or greater kernel support out there.  Has anyone made this work?  Kernel
> upgrade wasn't optional for us.  On the node in question we are running RH
> 6.2 kernel 2.2.16-3smp.

Did you try [1]? We use hamachi.c:v1.01 5/16/2000 on Linux 2.2.7 (we
still use that kernel because of AFS) and it seems to work.

- Felix

[1] http://www.parl.clemson.edu/~keithu/drivers/hamachi-2.2/hamachi.c
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