From owner-freebsd-atm Mon Sep 23 19:41:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-atm Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA13944 for atm-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maria.wustl.edu (maria.wustl.edu [128.252.169.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA13924 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 21:40:02 CDT From: Chuck Cranor To: Julian Elischer cc: grefen@carpe.net, "Ron G. Minnich" , atm@freebsd.org, hm@kts.org, drochner%zelux6.zel.archer@cmr.kiev.ua, kfa-juelich.de@alpo.whistle.com, dennis@etinc.com, Chuck Cranor , Jason Thorpe Subject: Re: VC support, *BSD and atm/frame/isdn Message-ID: <9609232140.aa05643@maria.wustl.edu> Sender: owner-atm@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >as you are using netbsd, you already have it..... >/sys/netatm hi- actually, it didn't make the cut-off date for netbsd-1.2, and netbsd's sup server is currently serving up 1.2release. however, i put it up for ftp at ftp://dworkin.wustl.edu/dist/bsd (includes the work i did to get it running under freebsd 2.2-960612-SNAP). when netbsd's sup returns from 1.2 to -current it will all appear. btw, when i wrote that code i tried to constrain myself to making minimal changes to the rest of the kernel and adding no new user-level programs. (i figured if i did anything too offbeat it would make it harder for the BSD groups to accept it in their source trees...!) the single hardware interface with llinfo/arp stuff fit in very well with my plan, and as an added bonus I was also able to fold in support for plain aal0 and aal5 netnatm sockets (which we need and use for our research) with minimal effort. so that (plus a desire to get something useful "on the table" for people to look at) is what motivated the design of the code. i didn't really think about issues such as "IF per VC" at the time... cheers, chuck