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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: Support for ATM bridging (RFC1483/2684) in FreeBSD?
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To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 08:48:33 -0800 (PST)
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> 13.01.2018 23:06, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > I believe some of this code has or is about to come under the
> > "unmaintained" axe and being removed from the system under
> > the claim that ATM is an obsolete technology.  So if you find
> > this usefull you need to chim in on -current and let the
> > project know your using it.
> 
> Anyway, this support is present in FreeBSD 11.x series and
> should be present until 11.x EOL
> for 5 years at least, according to plans at
> https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup

That presentation is about as clear as mud, most are going
to stop reading at "11.2 + 3 months" and not relaize that
there is also the July 26, 2017 + 5 year clause in the 
text 3 paragrphas later in the next section that talks
about the support model.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org