Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:45:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.2/802.3/802.5 (steps to token ring and others) Message-ID: <19980415134531.L1870@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414214910.7475K-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from Matthew N. Dodd on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 10:02:18PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414214910.7475K-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 22:02:18 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > I've been more or less out of time for the last month and a half but have > had a number of messages in my inbox today regarding Token Ring, one of > those from gta.com (makers of GnatBox). > > I'm not making the kind of forward progress I'd like to be making so I'm > going to attempt to at least get others involved in some of the discussion > of and the planning for things that are needed for Token Ring but are not > specific to it. > > FreeBSD needs its 'dead' 802.2 LLC code cleaned up and reintegrated into > the kernel. This buys us not only token ring but 802.3 ethenet frames as > well, which novell uses for their IPX protocol and Microsoft uses for > NetBEUI. > > Working on the 802.2 code requires no special hardware; regular old > ethernet will do just fine. Its obviously more helpful to have a > reference implementation (I'm using Win95 and Netware 3.12) to beat on > during development, but passing packets between two FreeBSD boxes should > be nearly as good. > > I would like to see a mailing list created to give this discussion some > focus and an initial 'push'. There are enough people that have expressed > an intent to do work in this area that a separate mailing list for > coordinating our efforts is justified. > > I would also be interested in talking to someone with contacts inside of > BSDi; they have token ring support for a few cards. Giving this code to > the FreeBSD project would allow us to begin concentrating our efforts on > writing hardware support, something BSDi would glean direct benefit from. > > Your comments, please. I've been vaguely thinking of doing something about Token Ring and other protocols, but I haven't had time to look at it yet. It would be nice to see a few of the less popular protocols supported, though (another one that springs to mind is X.25). I can set up a mailing list if Jonathan doesn't want to do it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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