From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 17:32:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA25271 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:32:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA25211 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from plains.nodak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA23691 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:23:09 -0800 Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id TAA10106 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:23:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:23:02 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199601180123.TAA10106@plains.nodak.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ATM research status request Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The network group here is creating an ATM test bed and one possible path is bypassing conventional workstations and going to high-end Intel machines running a free Unix (they don't care, but I do). I know of a posting from University of Penn that said they were working on a FORE ATM card for [Net Free]BSD under a NDA. I thought there was a posting from a Navy Research Lab that was doing some porting code (I don't have the mail and am relying on my failing brain cells). There was general interest in the capabilites of the Adaptec card. DEC has put LAN Emulation (LANE, not IETF's IP over ATM) source into the public domain, but this is the tip of the software iceberg. Someone said that there is some ATM support for Linux (vague statement because that is all I know). I will eventually have to add a FreeBSD machine into this ATM network. I realize adding a driver for an ATM adapter will be the easy part; the tricky part will be the kernel network glue. I guess this is a call for the state of the ATM work, a feeler of the desire to organize those working in this area. --mark.