Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:36:30 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, "Doug Hass" <dhass@imagestream.com> Cc: "Jim Bryant" <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>, "MurrayTaylor" <taylorm@bytecraft.au.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Alfred Shippen" <ashippen@metromatics.com.au> Subject: RE: FYI Message-ID: <000101c156bc$e8ceec80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110161726510.61181-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Julian Elischer >Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 5:29 PM >To: Doug Hass >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; >freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Alfred >Shippen >Subject: RE: FYI > > > > >On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Doug Hass wrote: > >> > The "hardware API" or the actual register interface code, is a >binary-only >> > module that is "snapped in" to SAND. SAND is GPL and is similar to the >> > FreeBSD Netgraph module - it provides all the higher-level >protocol stuff, >> > like >> > Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and such. SAND goes between the OS >TCP/IP stack and >> > that binary only module. >> >> That's rather simplified, since SAND also does alot of other things, but >> you have the basics. >> > >If there's a published interface, we could make a netgraph/SAND interface >module > Well, you might want to take a shortcut and leave the SAND code out of this and just make that interface one that the driver modules that would normally snap into SAND use. The modules would think that Netgraph is SAND? The goal would be to be able to make use of all the SAND modules that Imagestream has. Then all Imagestream's programmers would need to do is add in defines to the module code for FreeBSD and build the modules. While it's not a _port_ of SAND per-se, it's an emulation of it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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