Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:06:32 +0000 From: Ben Wilkinson <ben@newnet.co.uk> To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service Classes Message-ID: <3C879E18.B0BE8CBB@newnet.co.uk> References: <20020307170950.C99061-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
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Yes, I have such a request to be able to run on SDH, sorry if I seem confused but I am not familuar with this other driver :( Any chance you can help here? Ben Harti Brandt wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Wilkinson wrote: > > BW>Hi, > BW> > BW>I am not a programmer either :( However I am interested in having these cards run SDH! > BW>Has anyone implemented this functionality yet? Or maybe some more info on how I go about this? > BW> > BW>Ben > > No. If there is such a request I will implement it in my netgraph drivers > for the HE and the PCA200. These drivers will be available in -current > only and will use the netgraph ATM stack. > > Note, that there was a message last week, that HARP is going to be > de-orbited in -current. > > harti > > BW> > BW>"Christophe Prévotaux" wrote: > BW>> > BW>> oops I am not a programmer , I doubt I can succeed in making this work > BW>> however since the PCA200E does not support CBR it does not fit my needs > BW>> > BW>> I think I will have to look at the prosum card or the marconi HE155 cards > BW>> but all these have Linux drivers but no FreeBSD drivers > BW>> > BW>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:24:41 +0200 (CEST) > BW>> Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> wrote: > BW>> > BW>> > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Christophe Prévotaux wrote: > BW>> > > BW>> > CP>how do you do this ? Could someone implement this function in > BW>> > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD ? the purpose of this is simple : being able to > BW>> > CP>configure SDH VCs and pass ATM over it or IP + MPLS, thus one would > BW>> > CP>be able to have affordable Telco Grade Fiber infrastructure based on > BW>> > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD systems , much much cheaper than what exists on > BW>> > CP>the market at this time (unless I don't know about cheap ATM over > BW>> > CP>SDH and IP MPLS over SDH hardware that already exists) , Of course I > BW>> > CP>realize that I won't get ASICs based hardware performance for > BW>> > CP>routing because I don't know of any PCI based switch fabric cards > BW>> > CP>available and less about drivers for such cards. > BW>> > > BW>> > That's fairly easy: you have to write value 0x90 in SUNI register > BW>> > 0x46 for SONET and value 0x94 for SDH. Implementing should be easy too: > BW>> > make an ioctl that take a 32bit argument and inserts it into a command > BW>> > block to the PCA200. The argument should have the form: > BW>> > > BW>> > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+ > BW>> > | 8 bits mask | 8 bits value | 8 bits regno | 0x87 | > BW>> > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+ > BW>> > > BW>> > and you would use 0xff904687 for SONET and 0xff944687 for SDH. > BW>> > > BW>> > harti > BW>> > -- > BW>> > harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private > BW>> > brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org > BW>> > > BW>> > > BW>> > BW>> -- > BW>> =================================================================== > BW>> Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr > BW>> HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ > BW>> Z.A Farman Sud Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 > BW>> 9 rue Roland Coffignot Direct: +33 (0)3 26 79 08 02 > BW>> BP415 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 > BW>> 51689 Reims Cedex 2 > BW>> FRANCE > BW>> =================================================================== > BW>> > BW>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > BW>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message > BW> > > -- > harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private > brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message
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