From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jan 2 8:34:42 2001 From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 08:34:38 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E02037B402 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 08:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14DUU0-00005h-00; Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:40:20 -0700 Sender: wes@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A520474.9E7C8188@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:40:20 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with VLAN and natd. References: <200101020501.AAA58976@tsunami.waterspout.com> <3A517429.91B2F251@softweyr.com> <3A517522.EEF1A4B9@free.fr> <3A517A48.A0BD6439@softweyr.com> <3A517F87.B130AC0F@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message