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Date:      Mon, 1 May 2017 10:13:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-atm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The fate of ngatm
Message-ID:  <201705011713.v41HDohb091028@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170501160403.GB77098@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 12:47:51AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > On 28/4/17 2:00 am, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > > As previous threatened, I've removed support for NATM (as well as a
> > > remarkable number of remnants of the old ATM framework).  One piece
> > > that still remains is the ngatm framework in netgraph.  This includes
> > > the ng_ccatm(4), ng_sscfu(4), ng_sscop(4), and ng_uni(4) nodes.
> > >
> > > These don't attach to physical interfaces and didn't depend on the NATM
> > > interface code so I left them alone in the first cut.  My question
> > > is, are they useful without physical interfaces?  If so, keeping them
> > > doesn't appear to have a high support burden.  If not, we should remove
> > > them.
> > 
> > I don't know if people are using these now, but at one stage people 
> > were using them to decode/encode atm higher level protocols over an 
> > ethernet transport to implement a PPPoA infrastructure.
> 
> Just for clarity, I'm not talking about ng_atmllc(4) which is standalone
> and a classic header adding/striping module.

Does Juniper have any stake in this ATM code?
Their routers do support ATM interfaces.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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