From owner-freebsd-atm Fri Jun 7 9:11:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from savitri.newnet.co.uk (savitri.newnet.co.uk [212.87.87.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C79437B404 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newnet.co.uk (ben.cams [212.87.87.219]) by savitri.newnet.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g57GB8W54271; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:11:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben@newnet.co.uk) Message-ID: <3D00DB7C.6D7473DB@newnet.co.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:12:44 +0100 From: Ben Organization: Newnet plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christophe Prevotaux Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hfa0 PCA200E References: <20020607155845.0f337584.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> <3D00C0DA.A1D43B06@newnet.co.uk> <20020607170938.480ca110.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry to be vague, I was referring to the interest in development and maintaining ATM. I know there is interest in the use, I myself for instance am ;-) Ben Christophe Prevotaux wrote: > > Lack of interest ?? I have been asking for a whole bunch of things > if "lack of interest" means "no one to develop code" then that maybe > true but if "lack of interest" means "no users of such products" then > this is not true. > > Of course if there is no support for ATM in FreeBSD then it is pretty > obvious ATM users are not going to use FreeBSD for this. However I doubt > that this can be considered as a valid reason NOT to support ATM. > > Then what about MPLS , if they is no MPLS on FreeBSD there are no > FreeBSD users using MPLS on FreeBSD , is that a valid reason not to > implement MPLS ? I don't think so. > > However I know that there are several people that are working on ATM in > FreeBSD and NetBSD, moreover the AYAME project supports some ATM cards > for MPLS over ATM. > > I really don't think it's time to drop ATM on FreeBSD. It's like saying > well UUCP is not used on Internet anymore these days so let's drop it. > That is stupid since UUCP IS still used by many people and it is still a > very good way to handle communications where there are no other > possibilities. > > On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:19:06 +0100 > Ben wrote: > > > Humm, > > > > Yes I am also quite interested, I thought I heard they were planning > > not to support this in later versions due to lack of interest :( > > > > Ben Wilkinson > > NewNet plc. > > > > Christophe Prevotaux wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I just wanted to check to see if any new things had been develloped > > > patched or inserted in the 4.6 Release code concerning the ATM > > > stack and particularly the PCA200E driver > > > > > > -- > > > =============================================================== > > > Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr > > > HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ > > > Z.A.C Les Charmilles Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 > > > 3 Allée Thierry Sabine Direct: +33 (0)3 26 61 77 72 > > > BP202 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 > > > 51686 Reims Cedex 2 > > > FRANCE HEXANET Network Operation Center > > > =============================================================== > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message > > > > -- > =============================================================== > Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr > HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ > Z.A.C Les Charmilles Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 > 3 Allée Thierry Sabine Direct: +33 (0)3 26 61 77 72 > BP202 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 > 51686 Reims Cedex 2 > FRANCE HEXANET Network Operation Center > =============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message