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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:36:54 +0200 (EET)
From:      Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee>
To:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc:        Christophe =?ISO-8859-1?B?UHLpdm90YXV4?= <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>, freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, Fore and VPI>0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201181428540.55289-100000@valu.uninet.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20020118132130.D97177-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Harti Brandt wrote:

> That would actually be easy. My own drivers (for PCA200 and 155HE) are
> NATM drivers with three additional ioctl added (to get the QoS values down
> to the driver) and a couple of ng hooks that hook into ng_atm. From ng_atm
> you can go to whatever other netgraph module you want. If you don't need
> signalling (only PVCs), you are done. If you need signalling, well, you
> need all the other netgraph modules (ng_sscop, ng_uni, ng_ccatm, ...).
> 
> If you are interested I can send you the drivers and ng_atm to have a look
> at.

No, there is no need for signalling. Typical home DSL connections don't
need any signalling. ISPs typically just set up 1-2 statically configured
PVC's and various encapsulation over that. PVC autodiscovery would be
nice, but that is not exactly signalling.

best regards,
taavi


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