Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:34:36 -0600 From: Joe Thomas <joe_thomas@cnt.com> To: 'Harti Brandt' <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, Ben Wilkinson <ben@newnet.co.uk> Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FYI - HARP Message-ID: <67DB78CE91D7D41190A100508BFDF5E051F0BC@esply03.cnt.com>
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Actually, the message was: >The two hardware drivers for the HARP ATM stack has been broken in >-current for a LOOOONG time now. > >If nobody are have sufficient interest in the HARP ATM stack to = actually >fix these two drivers, we should retire the entire thing from = -current. > >So consider this a "last call", if the drivers are not fixed by may = 1st >the HARP ATM stack will be put in the attic. > >If anybody is interested in actively maintaining this code, I may be >able to find a donor for some ATM cards. > >--=20 >Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by = incompetence. > The key being "If nobody are have (sic) sufficient interest ..." As one of the original developers, I do have an interest in seeing this maintained. The problem has been that all of us have taken jobs = elsewhere and the equipment we used is not available to us. I am in the process = of trying to get my current employer to allow me to use some equipment = here to continue this support. (Equipment being a PC and access to a FORE = switch and/or other ATM testing equipment such as an ADTECH AX/4000) The two problems are one: it's of no direct benefit to them so I must convince = them that it has no impact on my completing my "real" work, and two: the adapters = we have here are not PC PCI based. Poul-Henning has mentioned that he's looking = for someone to loan/donate a card or two to support this but until I get = the okay here, I'm not going to pursue adapters.=20 Joseph Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Harti Brandt [mailto:brandt@fokus.gmd.de] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:16 AM To: Ben Wilkinson Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service Classes On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Wilkinson wrote: BW>Hi, BW> BW>I am not a programmer either :( However I am interested in having = these cards run SDH! BW>Has anyone implemented this functionality yet? Or maybe some more = info on how I go about this? BW> BW>Ben No. If there is such a request I will implement it in my netgraph = drivers for the HE and the PCA200. These drivers will be available in -current only and will use the netgraph ATM stack. Note, that there was a message last week, that HARP is going to be de-orbited in -current. harti BW> BW>"Christophe Pr=E9votaux" wrote: BW>> BW>> oops I am not a programmer , I doubt I can succeed in making this = work BW>> however since the PCA200E does not support CBR it does not fit my = needs BW>> BW>> I think I will have to look at the prosum card or the marconi = HE155 cards BW>> but all these have Linux drivers but no FreeBSD drivers BW>> BW>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:24:41 +0200 (CEST) BW>> Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> wrote: BW>> BW>> > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Christophe Pr=E9votaux wrote: BW>> > BW>> > CP>how do you do this ? Could someone implement this function in BW>> > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD ? the purpose of this is simple : being = able to BW>> > CP>configure SDH VCs and pass ATM over it or IP + MPLS, thus one would BW>> > CP>be able to have affordable Telco Grade Fiber infrastructure = based on BW>> > CP>FreeBSD or NetBSD systems , much much cheaper than what = exists on BW>> > CP>the market at this time (unless I don't know about cheap ATM = over BW>> > CP>SDH and IP MPLS over SDH hardware that already exists) , Of = course I BW>> > CP>realize that I won't get ASICs based hardware performance for BW>> > CP>routing because I don't know of any PCI based switch fabric = cards BW>> > CP>available and less about drivers for such cards. BW>> > BW>> > That's fairly easy: you have to write value 0x90 in SUNI = register BW>> > 0x46 for SONET and value 0x94 for SDH. Implementing should be = easy too: BW>> > make an ioctl that take a 32bit argument and inserts it into a command BW>> > block to the PCA200. The argument should have the form: BW>> > BW>> > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+ BW>> > | 8 bits mask | 8 bits value | 8 bits regno | 0x87 | BW>> > +-------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+ BW>> > BW>> > and you would use 0xff904687 for SONET and 0xff944687 for SDH. BW>> > BW>> > harti BW>> > -- BW>> > harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/privat= e BW>> > brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org BW>> > BW>> > BW>> BW>> -- BW>> = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D BW>> Christophe Prevotaux Email: = c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr BW>> HEXANET SARL URL: = http://www.hexanet.fr/ BW>> Z.A Farman Sud Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 BW>> 9 rue Roland Coffignot Direct: +33 (0)3 26 79 08 02 BW>> BP415 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 BW>> 51689 Reims Cedex 2 BW>> FRANCE BW>> = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D BW>> BW>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org BW>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message BW> --=20 harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/privat= e brandt@fokus.fhg.de 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
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