Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:57:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Lee A. Butler" <butler@ARL.ARMY.MIL> To: Joe Thomas <joe_thomas@cnt.com> Cc: 'Harti Brandt' <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, Ben Wilkinson <ben@newnet.co.uk>, atm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI - HARP Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.1020307165612.682903A-100000@cad.arl.army.mil> In-Reply-To: <67DB78CE91D7D41190A100508BFDF5E051F0BC@esply03.cnt.com>
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We are actually interested in having the drivers maintained. We have the hardware, but not the manpower to maintain the drivers. Perhaps we could arrange something. Lee A. Butler=09=09=09=09=09E-Mail: butler@arl.army.mil Attn: AMSRL-SL-BE=09=09=09=09Phone: (410) 278-9200 U.S. Army Research Laboratory=09=09=09DSN:=09 298-9200 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5068=09=09FAX: (410) 278-5058 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. --- Justice William O. Douglas On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Joe Thomas wrote: > =09Actually, the message was: >=20 > >The two hardware drivers for the HARP ATM stack has been broken in > >-current for a LOOOONG time now. > > > >If nobody are have sufficient interest in the HARP ATM stack to actually > >fix these two drivers, we should retire the entire thing from -current. > > > >So consider this a "last call", if the drivers are not fixed by may 1st > >the HARP ATM stack will be put in the attic. > > > >If anybody is interested in actively maintaining this code, I may be > >able to find a donor for some ATM cards. > > > >--=20 > >Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > >phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > >FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > >Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompeten= ce. > > >=20 > The key being "If nobody are have (sic) sufficient interest ..." >=20 > =09As one of the original developers, I do have an interest in seeing > this > maintained. The problem has been that all of us have taken jobs elsewhere > and the equipment we used is not available to us. I am in the process of > trying to get my current employer to allow me to use some equipment here > to continue this support. (Equipment being a PC and access to a FORE swit= ch > and/or other ATM testing equipment such as an ADTECH AX/4000) The two > problems are one: it's of no direct benefit to them so I must convince th= em > that > it has no impact on my completing my "real" work, and two: the adapters w= e > have > here are not PC PCI based. Poul-Henning has mentioned that he's looking f= or > someone to loan/donate a card or two to support this but until I get the > okay > here, I'm not going to pursue adapters.=20 >=20 > Joseph Thomas >=20 >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: Harti Brandt [mailto:brandt@fokus.gmd.de] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:16 AM > To: Ben Wilkinson > Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Service Classes >=20 >=20 > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Wilkinson wrote: >=20 > BW>Hi, > BW> > BW>I am not a programmer either :( However I am interested in having thes= e > cards run SDH! > BW>Has anyone implemented this functionality yet? Or maybe some more info= on > how I go about this? > BW> > BW>Ben >=20 > 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. >=20 > Note, that there was a message last week, that HARP is going to be > de-orbited in -current. >=20 > harti >=20 > BW> > BW>"Christophe Pr=E9votaux" wrote: > BW>> > BW>> oops I am not a programmer , I doubt I can succeed in making this wo= rk > BW>> however since the PCA200E does not support CBR it does not fit my ne= eds > BW>> > BW>> I think I will have to look at the prosum card or the marconi HE155 > cards > 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= to > BW>> > CP>configure SDH VCs and pass ATM over it or IP + MPLS, thus one > would > BW>> > CP>be able to have affordable Telco Grade Fiber infrastructure bas= ed > 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 ov= er > BW>> > CP>SDH and IP MPLS over SDH hardware that already exists) , Of cou= rse > 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 car= ds > 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 > too: > BW>> > make an ioctl that take a 32bit argument and inserts it into a > command > 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/hartmut.brandt/private > BW>> > brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org > BW>> > > BW>> > > BW>> > BW>> -- > BW>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > BW>> Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr > BW>> HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ > BW>> Z.A Farman Sud Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 > BW>> 9 rue Roland Coffignot Direct: +33 (0)3 26 79 08 02 > BW>> BP415 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 > BW>> 51689 Reims Cedex 2 > BW>> FRANCE > BW>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > BW>> > BW>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > BW>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message > BW> >=20 > --=20 > harti brandt, > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private > brandt@fokus.fhg.de >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message
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