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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
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Subject: Re: Frame relay and ATM support: virtual interface per vpi? 
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apropos of this discussion I refer interested parties to: 
http://www.networks.digital.com/npb/html/atm-starter-kit.html
Code and docs. Has switched VCs, i think.

Also: http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/linux-atm/#current
worth a look. code and docs. spec for the socket level. 

My only change to all this so far is that in MINI, mmap on a socket is
meaningful: it gets you the hardware for the virtual interface for the VC,
mapped into your address space. Aside from that, all this fits. It's 
amazing how well the socket/bind/accept/connect etc. model has aged. 
(it's also amazing how ugly these ISO addresses are: country-code in the 
address. Hey, if i fly to france with my laptop, does its name change?)

>From the first glance the DEC stuff may be a little cleaner and less 
linux-specific, hence easier for freebsd to use. If linux-atm continues 
to move too much faster than freebsd-atm I may move over to that for a 
while ...

ron

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