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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:16:07 +0100 (CET)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
To:        Ben Wilkinson <ben@newnet.co.uk>
Cc:        atm@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Service Classes
Message-ID:  <20020307170950.C99061-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: <3C878EB5.9DABEB60@newnet.co.uk>

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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 o=
n 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 need=
s
BW>>
BW>> I think I will have to look at the prosum card or the marconi HE155 ca=
rds
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 t=
o
BW>> > CP>configure SDH VCs and pass ATM over it or IP + MPLS, thus one wou=
ld
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 cours=
e 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 t=
oo:
BW>> > make an ioctl that take a 32bit argument and inserts it into a comma=
nd
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/har=
tmut.brandt/private
BW>> >               brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org
BW>> >
BW>> >
BW>>
BW>> --
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BW>> Christophe Prevotaux                  Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr
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