From owner-freebsd-atm Fri Mar 10 4:38:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from ns.uninet.ee (ns.uninet.ee [194.204.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C3537BA1D for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:38:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taavi@uninet.ee) Received: by ns.uninet.ee (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6757E2582A; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:38:06 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.uninet.ee (Postfix) with SMTP id 60A9214A14; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:38:06 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:38:06 +0200 (EET) From: Taavi Talvik To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: atm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATM and Netgraph ? In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 8 Mar 2000 Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: Hello, I am thinking among similiar lines. Currentli in documentation/sample code reading phase and trying to understand netgraph and existing HARP code. But yes, netgraph best way to construct different protocol stacks (PPPoA,PPPoE,classical IP, zillion of different encapsulations, virtual circuits etc..) best regards, taavi > As I was told, the best way to add this kind of feature would be to add > netgraph hooks to the existing ATM FreeBSD code (this is indeed heavily > hinted at in the Netgraph doc). > Has someone had a look at such a possibility ? > PS : this could be the begnning of a better support for ISP-side xDSL, > as each ATM PVC could be in the beginning used as an Ethernet > half-bridge, and later as a PPPoE or PPTP termination. > PS2 : the ATM board used is the Fore PCA200e > PS3 : the mailing list archives are quite silent on this subject (I > could only find the announce of the Netgraph inclusion in FreeBSD) ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi@uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10 | fax: +372 6405151 Tallinn 10143, Estonia | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message