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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:16:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
To:        Christophe Prevotaux <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
Cc:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, <winter@jurai.net>, <atm@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: hfa0 PCA200E
Message-ID:  <20020610161441.K32535-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020610155810.3a31dbdd.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>

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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Christophe Prevotaux wrote:

CP>
CP>Yes but I think the PCA200E should also be maintained (it has bugs
CP>and lack features (such as dynamic MTU setup and hooks for tcpdump
CP>etc...) and the netgraph ATM should support PCA200E as well
CP>
CP>Also I think the PCA200E driver has bugs (CRC related etc...)
CP>
CP>IMHO. (I am a PCA200E user and at the time I bought the PCA200E there
CP>was no 155HE drivers for FreeBSD.) I agree the HE155 is much better
CP>but some people such as myself only have PCA200E cards.

I have both a driver for the HE and the PCA200E and they work just fine
with NATM or netgraph-ATM. Maybe both of them could be harpyfied...

harti

CP>
CP>
CP>
CP>
CP>On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:39:18 +0200 (CEST)
CP>Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> wrote:
CP>
CP>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
CP>>
CP>> MND>On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Ben wrote:
CP>> MND>> Sorry to be vague, I was referring to the interest in developmen=
t and
CP>> MND>> maintaining ATM. I know there is interest in the use, I myself f=
or
CP>> MND>> instance am ;-)
CP>> MND>
CP>> MND>There are developers working on ATM in -CURRENT now so it won't be=
 going
CP>> MND>away.
CP>> MND>
CP>> MND>My hope is to clean up the existing HARP drivers (and inport the '=
idt'
CP>> MND>driver) so that the hardware drivers can be shared between HARP, N=
ATM, and
CP>> MND>the netgraph ATM stack.  This has obvious advantages.
CP>>
CP>> Netgraph-ATM has a driver for the Marconi 155HE (which should also wor=
k
CP>> with the 622HE). Given that these card cost the same as the 200E and a=
re a
CP>> good deal better (they support traffic shaping, ABR, VPI!=3D0) it coul=
d make
CP>> sense to HARPify and import it.
CP>>
CP>> harti
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ut.brandt/private
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