From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 21:38:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F37616A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.31.45.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FD743FB1 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:38:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rodrigc@crodrigues.org) Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost.crodrigues.org [127.0.0.1])hAD5e8XP005855 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:40:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc@h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost)hAD5e8jh005854 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:40:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:40:07 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031113054007.GA5797@crodrigues.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Netgraph-ATM used in Masters thesis X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:38:13 -0000 Hi, I saw some posts to the cvs-all mailing list recently, giving Harti Brandt a hard time for importing bsnmp to the FreeBSD source tree, so I thought I would post this. :) I recently used Netgraph-ATM as part of my masters thesis at Harvard Extension School, which looked at ATM, CORBA, and network management. My thesis is online at: http://crodrigues.org/thesis_web/ Netgraph-ATM played a big part in my thesis, and Harti was VERY helpful. Harti even extended certain ATM device drivers with sysctl's to get at lower-level register information which allowed me to look at SONET alarm information. The main reason I started using FreeBSD was because of Harti's active maintenance of Netgraph-ATM, versus the less-maintained ATM implementation under Linux. While working on my thesis, I was so impressed with FreeBSD that I switched my home systems over to it, and am still using it, even though my thesis is done. :) I realize that 99% of people out there don't use or care about ATM and bsnmp being in the FreeBSD source tree , but I would just say: - the stability of a lot of Netgraph ATM stuff improved when it got into the tree, since I didn't need to get private patches from Harti - I benefited a lot from it being in the tree (a bit selfish to say, but true) I would like to thank Harti for his hard work on Netgraph-ATM, and all of the FreeBSD committers for producing a great OS and a great piece of software that let me get my work done!! -- Craig Rodrigues http://crodrigues.org rodrigc@crodrigues.org