Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:52:10 -0500 (EST) From: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov> To: atm@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATM in FreeBSD, status requested! Message-ID: <199812281952.OAA27373@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I consider any loss of support to the Cranor driver to be
a major blow. I use Kenjiro Cho's ALTQ modified Cranor
driver for IP QoS test and analysis. I also use a different
modified Cranor driver for my participation in the CAIRN
(www.cairn.net) community.
Although both modified drivers have taken digressed from
the original Cranor driver I've always hoped that somehow
both modified drivers could be merged into a new ATM driver
that has very robust IP QoS support. Furthermore, the new
driver could be continued as a part of the FreeBSD tree.
I don't know how ISI (CAIRN) or Sony (ALTQ) will react to
FreeBSD dropping support to the Cranor driver. Maybe they
don't care and I'm merely overreacting. I don't know if
there are plans to migrate the QoS functionality to the
HARP driver (this might depend on what FreeBSD does). Yet
I feel that the loss of FreeBSD's support for the Cranor
driver may kill any hopes of merging the existing IP QoS
functionality into an ATM driver.
George Uhl
ESDIS Network Prototyping Lab
NASA GSFC
> From owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 28 14:07 EST 1998
> To: atm@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: ATM in FreeBSD, status requested!
> From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:54:50 +0100
> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
>
>
> Ok gang,
>
> I would like to know if we have any users of ATM in FreeBSD and which
> of the two implementations you use ("Cranor" or "HARP").
>
> I am seriously considering retiring the Chuck Cranors ATM stuff leaving
> HARP in the tree to handle it all. Only casualty I know of would be
> support for Adaptec cards.
>
> Comments ?
>
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal
>
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199812281952.OAA27373>