Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 16:31:08 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FrameRelay support for cx/ctau adapters Message-ID: <20040507162633.G61288@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040507121738.GA97302@cell.sick.ru> References: <20040507160253.B61288@woozle.rinet.ru> <20040507121738.GA97302@cell.sick.ru>
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On Fri, 7 May 2004, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: GS> D> we're using Cronyx adapters, some of them in FremaRelay mode, which has been GS> D> supported by cronyx-made drivers available from vendor site for most of FreeBSD GS> D> versions. FR support involves modifications to sppp kernel routines. GS> D> GS> D> Main driver maintainer is now FreeBSD committer (rik@). GS> D> However, during merging cx/ctau into the tree, FR suppport has not been GS> D> incorporated. Roman told me there are some objections to these modifications. GS> D> GS> D> Can I ask for more complete cx/ctau support including FR? GS> D> GS> D> Please keep me CC'd, as I'm not subscribed to -net. GS> GS> FreeBSD has support for FR with help of nodes ng_frame_relay and ng_lmi. This GS> support is hardware independent. And it works perfectly with cronyx adapters. GS> What is a reason for merging hardware specific support from old cronyx driver into GS> base system? Short answer: keep POLA. Longer answer: to keep 4.x systems with _existing_ fr setup up to date, non-intuitive and non-atomic patches are now required. BTW: we have more than one perfectly (for particular meaning of 'perfect', os course ;-) working firewall systems, more than on (3) ppp inplementations, and more than one software raid implementation. I do not see any harm in existing another (working!) implementation for fr then, especially when it does so little bloat to the code base. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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