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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:45:14 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Frame relay and ATM support
Message-ID:  <199606242345.QAA02726@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199606242311.QAA03078@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jun 24, 96 04:11:37 pm

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> I'm looking into the support needed in FreeBNSD to support 
> ATM and Frame relay services in a generic manner.
> 
> mostly this would suggest a file equivalent to if_ethersubr.c
> but if_framesubr.c or something, that knows how to 
> associate DLCI's (or VPI's) with
> addresses, in the same way that ARP does for ethernet,
> with a convenient method for controlling such entries.

[ ... ]

> I bring this up because Iwas hired to write a driver for a frame relay
> interface for a proprietary project, and want to make sure that as much of 
> what I write can be brought back to FreeBSD as being of general use.

Matt (over at DEC) had some good ideas in this regard, which he was
talking about back when we were talking loadable module interfacing
for protocol families.  I might have the data around if you can't
find it in the archive.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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