From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 12 15:45:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28151 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus (pm3-p27.tfs.net [206.154.183.219]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA28138 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA05171; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:43:57 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199704122243.RAA05171@argus> Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:43:50 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@tfs.net In-Reply-To: <7100.860883388@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 12, 97 03:16:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > > Can anyone tell me anything about the BSD X.25 drivers, and whether or not > > they are usable? > > They are not usable. They may have been at one time, but they have > rotted through disuse. I kinda thought so.. > > I am interested in possibly adding a AX.25 kernel-level driver... > > By all means! > > > This is the second time I have posted a message on this topic, and am > > wondering if the first one was read? > > Probably, it's just that X.25 is about as popular and interesting a > topic for most folks as a paper tape driver, hence the lack of > response. :-) may be.. but there are many many many hams around the world using AX.25 for packet radio operation... i see uses for such a driver under FreeBSD... The newest Linux kernels have recently realized the numbers and have done such a driver... with new spread-spectrum rules, hams in the us will soon be using off the shelf equipment for up to T1+ speeds... 115.2k/s is now possible using low-cost commercial equipment in the 33cm (902-928MHz) band... I believe that 10Mbps is soon to be available in the C-Band (5.65-5.925GHz); see the FCC ruling for Apple Computers and their Part 15 devices in this band... Linux sucks, true... but it is just this kind of thing that is keeping them ahead of FreeBSD in such things... as far as popularity of X.25, i agree, but in the mean time, it is the STANDARD for radio use, a la AX.25... on this subject, maybe a discussion group could be set up to cover support for such things... hmmm... maybe a freebsd-packet-radio mailing list? if you haven't been keeping up with such things, the US military has recently released RFCs on the subject of packet-radio... it also has military uses... there are almost a million amatuer radio operators in the united states alone, let's not give up another entire market to the lin[s]ux crowd! Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2-meter, 70cm - KPC-3 Plus packet capable