From owner-freebsd-atm Wed Jan 13 11:36:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11265 for freebsd-atm-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:36:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from george.arc.nasa.gov (george.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.194.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11258 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (lamaster@localhost) by george.arc.nasa.gov (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA26683 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:35:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:34:59 -0800 (PST) From: Hugh LaMaster To: atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATM in FreeBSD, status requested! In-Reply-To: <199812282009.UAA18438@east.isi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Suresh Bhogavilli wrote: > Excerpts from what Poul-Henning Kamp said on 28 Dec 1998: > > > What would it take to sway you guys over to use HARP instead ? > > The same functionality that we put in the Cranor's ATM driver (which > I mentioned in my previous mail) :-) Just tuned in to this thread. I have to second everything that Suresh Bhogavilli and George Uhl have stated. I don't think you should underestimate the extent to which Cranor's driver is being used. Likewise, Adaptec cards, [although I guess this will have to change]. In any case, personally, I would like to see a simple/painless way to select either driver (right now it is a little messy). I agree that there is no reason to support multiple drivers for most NICs, but, given the evolving nature of ATM-level connection-oriented network services vs. IP-level, QoS, intserv, diffserv, and so on, I think it is reasonable to support more than one driver/approach. -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 233-21, ASCII Email: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: hlamaster@arc.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 650/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message