Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:40:20 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@free.fr> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with VLAN and natd. Message-ID: <3A520474.9E7C8188@softweyr.com> References: <200101020501.AAA58976@tsunami.waterspout.com> <3A517429.91B2F251@softweyr.com> <3A517522.EEF1A4B9@free.fr> <3A517A48.A0BD6439@softweyr.com> <3A517F87.B130AC0F@free.fr>
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Thierry Herbelot wrote:
>
> Wes Peters wrote:
> >
> > Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> > >
> > > Wes Peters wrote:
> > > >
> > > [SNIP]
> > > >
> > > > Doing link-layer encapsulation modules is really not very difficult.
> > > > I've written pretty much the full complement, covering ethernet (10,
> > > > 100, and 1000), FDDI/CDDI, token ring, ATM, and Frame Relay. (Chuck,
> > >
> > > What about a netgraph-enabled ATM NIC driver ? (this seems the missing
> > > piece to get bridged Ethernet over RFC1483 encapsulation on ATM)
> >
> > If the top of all the network interface drivers is a netgraph connection,
>
> we agree on it : FreeBSD needs a netgraphified hfa(4) : I've seen one or
> two trys to get it done (the trouble is not many of our commiters know
> well enough both ATM and netgraph to actually do it, and the ones who do
> are so busy with other, more interesting challenges)
Like me. Sigh. I've been approached about several interesting contract
positions to do FreeBSD work since I joined this nice little startup, but
I'm going to stick with them and see if my stock options ever get converted
into real money. At least it's OpenBSD work. ;^)
> PS : at one time, I would even have tried getting some money from my
> company to pay a consultant do it (there are not many of them in France,
> though)
>
> > any encapsulation should be straightforward. In the Xylan switch, we
>
> At work, I'm using a 1100 LSS : is it the same as the one you worked on
> ?
No, I worked on OmniSwitch, OmniSwitch/Router, and OmniStack, as well as
the new OmniAccess. I wrote the "fastpath routing" code for the last three.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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