From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 20:39:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA10897 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA10877 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA10567; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 23:39:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3352F86E.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 23:39:26 -0400 From: Jim Durham Organization: Dis- X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jbryant@tfs.net CC: Pedro Giffuni , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers References: <199704140402.XAA08120@argus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Bryant wrote: > > > well, x.25 is not my favorite thing in the world, but i have ulterior > motives... to get freebsd out amongst some forward thinking hams... > also, of course, to have a kernel level AX.25 interface to my own > equipment, it would greatly simplify doing TCP/IP encapsulation... > (snip!) > > such a kernel driver is highly desirable... if there wasn't a market > for it, i wouldn't be wasting my time, your time, or the -core's > time... I'll volunteer to help. I'm running AX25 using a user-level program on 2.1.7, which I'm planning to try to make into a decent port, but I've been thinking about native AX25 stuff for a while. My question is whether it should be part of the kernel or implemented as a line discipline, which it really is...like SLIP. regards, Jim Durham, (W2XO)