Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 18:38:49 +0000 From: Joerg Micheel <micheel@fokus.gmd.de> To: grog@lemis.de Cc: TOTO@ifqsc.sc.usp.br Subject: Re: ATM support (fwd) Message-ID: <m0tMez3-0011jVC@cls.net>
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> Is there any plans to support ATM boards in the future? > Wouldn't that be interesting? I have heard about plans to port drivers for the EISA-200 card from FORE Systems to different PC platforms (Linux, Plan9, and others) but I've never seen actual code nor anything running. It is definitely interesting, since there are much more cheaper ATM cards and switches available that a year ago (you can build an ATM island of 4 endsystems and a switch for, maybe US $20.000) and a driver for a popular operating system with sources would be a hit. > Is that hard to implement? It is complicated, but worthwhile. It would take an experienced kernel hacker about 2-3 month to come up with release 0.5. 50% is fight with the local operating system, 50% with the adaptor itself. You'd have to implement PVC's with AAL5 and find some other PD code to plug on top to get SVC's. What about VINCE ? Joerg Micheel ATM Test and Conformance Center @ GMD FOKUS
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