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Date:      Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:38:16 -0500
From:      "Chris Steva" <csteva@crs.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu>
To:        "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@adsu.bellsouth.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ATM LANE support
Message-ID:  <003201be4300$f321eb60$6cf11681@cwru.edu>

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Unfortunately in practice at the desktop level there are a mix of hosts that
run on ATM or ethernet.  As is the case here where we use LANE to integrate
both in to a single network.

Chris

>ATM LANE is evil.  Why do you want it?
>
>On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:58:24PM -0500, Chris Steva wrote:
>> I was pleasantly surprised to find that FreeBSD 3.0 supported my FORE
>> PCA-200e ATM card, but I wasn't able to get it up and running becuase
there
>> is no support for ethernet LANE (LAN emulation).  Instead I found HARP,
>> which appears to be some kind of substitue to LANE for running IP over
ATM.
>> Will there be support for LANE in the future?
>>
>> I havn't been able to find any information about what's is going on in
>> FreeBSD ATM land.  The Linux ATM world doesn't seem to be any further
along,
>> but I saw that they do have LANE support in their alpha release of ATM
>> drivers.


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