Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:35:34 -0700 From: Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_strip for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <01081423353401.09131@db.wireless.net> In-Reply-To: <200108150527.f7F5RIW20743@harmony.village.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0108142231200.92896-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <200108150527.f7F5RIW20743@harmony.village.org>
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On Tuesday 14 August 2001 10:27, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0108142231200.92896-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> David Scheidt writes: > : :I was thinking about porting netbsd's if_strip driver (the driver for > : : the metricom ricochet radios--allows you to use these radios as nodes > : : in a WLAN). Before I do this, I thought I should first check to see if > : : anyone else had already ported it to FreeBSD...? > : > : Are these useful now that metricom has shut down? > > Some versions of the metricom modems would allow point to point > communications when they weren't on the merticom net. I don't know if > this driver is for one of these or not, but it might not be a bad > thing to do if so. I'll be there will be a lot of cheap modems on the > market soon. Sierra evidentally got stiffed for $10M in inventory of > these modems. They should be appearing on the surplus market soon... Exactly. This is the reason for my interest. I have a couple of the new 128Kbs radios (the ricochet GS and GT models) and they have a different MAC address format then the older radios that the if_strip driver was originally written for. The difference is only this: Older radio MAC format: XXXX-XXXX Newer radio MAC format: XX-XXXX-XXXX or XXX-XXXX-XXXX So in addition to porting the basic driver to freebsd, it would be smart to add code to accommodate the newer radios. Oh, and the new radios work in peer-to-peer mode just fine. You can either use them like regular modems and just dial the MAC address of the other modem and establish a ppp link, or they can be used in "Starmode" (which is what if_strip is for), allowing you to use them like wireless ethernet cards. -- Regards, Devin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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