Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:55:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> To: exxon@soback.kornet21.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which 155Mbps ATM card does FreeBSD support? Message-ID: <199808131355.IAA11862@plains.NoDak.edu>
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on Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:59:42, ExxonIC <exxon@soback.kornet21.net> asked: > I'm searching ATM card running FreeBSD. > Please let me know the commercial vendors supporting FreeBSD. > I'm considering to install FreeBSD on my 330MHz DELL PC > (Dell optiplex GX1). Good Luck! Below is my general reply to this question and it is based upon my experience and upon the replies of others to the same question. -------- I was told that Adaptec supports FreeBSD. This would make Adaptec the only commerical vendor that directly supports ATM cards on FreeBSD. I was surprised that anyone commerically supported ATM cards for FreeBSD. see: http://www.adaptec.com/products/solutions/atmfamily.html -------- the other ATM code on FreeBSD is more experimental in quality. there are a couple stacks and a few different adapters that are supported by those stack. -------- Advanced Networking Group at Network Computing Services, Inc, (formerly the Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.), has a stack called the Host ATM Research Platform (HARP). HARP uses UNI 3.0 signalling, but recently they said their new release will support UNI 3.1 signalling. HARP implements IETF Classical IP over ATM network protocol. for details see: http://www.msci.magic.net/harp/harp2.html HARP supports the following ATM cards: FORE Systems, Inc. SBA-200 and SBA-200E ATM SBus Adapters FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters (I wrote a ATM driver based on the IDT 77201 SAR that also uses the HARP code. the Forerunner LE cards use the campatible IDT 77211 SAR) there was talk about including HARP into FreeBSD-current. -------- The Applied Research Lab (ARL) of Washington University has a stack that supports Adaptec 590x, and Efficient Networks (Midway) NICs. I know this supports only PVC, but I do not know the protocols or signalling that it supports. The only information I have on the package is the package address: ftp://dworkin.wustl.edu/dist/bsd/bsdatm1.4.tar.gz this package is part of FreeBSD-current. -------- I was told that there is a freely available UNI 3.1 stack available from: http://www.begemot.org/cgi-bin/begemot/product.cgi?freeuni >From reading the documents, it compiles on FreeBSD, but there is no adapter support. --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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