Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:00:53 +0000 From: Ben Wilkinson <ben@newnet.co.uk> To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service Classes Message-ID: <3C878EB5.9DABEB60@newnet.co.uk> References: <20010712164530.22d2831f.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107121720140.74829-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> <20010712182327.7f857f77.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
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Hi, I am not a programmer either :( However I am interested in having these cards run SDH! Has anyone implemented this functionality yet? Or maybe some more info on how I go about this? Ben "Christophe Prévotaux" wrote: > > oops I am not a programmer , I doubt I can succeed in making this work > however since the PCA200E does not support CBR it does not fit my needs > > I think I will have to look at the prosum card or the marconi HE155 cards > but all these have Linux drivers but no FreeBSD drivers > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:24:41 +0200 (CEST) > Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Christophe Prévotaux wrote: > > > > CP>how do you do this ? Could someone implement this function in > > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD ? the purpose of this is simple : being able to > > CP>configure SDH VCs and pass ATM over it or IP + MPLS, thus one would > > CP>be able to have affordable Telco Grade Fiber infrastructure based on > > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD systems , much much cheaper than what exists on > > CP>the market at this time (unless I don't know about cheap ATM over > > CP>SDH and IP MPLS over SDH hardware that already exists) , Of course I > > CP>realize that I won't get ASICs based hardware performance for > > CP>routing because I don't know of any PCI based switch fabric cards > > CP>available and less about drivers for such cards. > > > > That's fairly easy: you have to write value 0x90 in SUNI register > > 0x46 for SONET and value 0x94 for SDH. Implementing should be easy too: > > make an ioctl that take a 32bit argument and inserts it into a command > > block to the PCA200. The argument should have the form: > > > > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+ > > | 8 bits mask | 8 bits value | 8 bits regno | 0x87 | > > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+ > > > > and you would use 0xff904687 for SONET and 0xff944687 for SDH. > > > > harti > > -- > > harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private > > brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org > > > > > > -- > =================================================================== > Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr > HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ > Z.A Farman Sud Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 > 9 rue Roland Coffignot Direct: +33 (0)3 26 79 08 02 > BP415 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 > 51689 Reims Cedex 2 > FRANCE > =================================================================== > > 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
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