Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 17:19:09 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru> Cc: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: FrameRelay support for cx/ctau adapters Message-ID: <409B8CCD.1030300@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040507123947.GA97635@cell.sick.ru> References: <20040507160253.B61288@woozle.rinet.ru> <20040507121738.GA97302@cell.sick.ru> <20040507162633.G61288@woozle.rinet.ru> <20040507123947.GA97635@cell.sick.ru>
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Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 04:31:08PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >D> GS> FreeBSD has support for FR with help of nodes ng_frame_relay and ng_lmi. This >D> GS> support is hardware independent. And it works perfectly with cronyx adapters. >D> GS> What is a reason for merging hardware specific support from old cronyx driver into >D> GS> base system? >D> >D> Short answer: keep POLA. >D> >D> Longer answer: to keep 4.x systems with _existing_ fr setup up to date, >D> non-intuitive and non-atomic patches are now required. >D> >D> BTW: we have more than one perfectly (for particular meaning of 'perfect', os >D> course ;-) working firewall systems, more than on (3) ppp inplementations, and >D> more than one software raid implementation. I do not see any harm in existing >D> another (working!) implementation for fr then, especially when it does so >D> little bloat to the code base. > > From the point of FreeBSD cronyx driver appeared 1 month ago, and was not >supported before. > > By the way take a look at cvs update -r 1.1.1.2 if_spppsubr.c 15 May 1997 14:48:46 Support for FR was in FreeBSD's sppp since 15 May, but only on vendor branch :-( I can't say why it was only there. I don't know all history, but I may ask Sergey Vakulenko about those days if some one wants to know. I become maintainer of this code a few years later. I there is no serious objections, I can commit this part of our sppp. And personaly I prefer to do so. rik
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