Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:55:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Larry S. Lile" <lile@stdio.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.2/802.3/802.5 (steps to token ring and others) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980415095157.26294A-100000@heathers2.stdio.com> In-Reply-To: <19980415134531.L1870@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 22:02:18 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > > I've been more or less out of time for the last month and a half but have > > had a number of messages in my inbox today regarding Token Ring, one of > > those from gta.com (makers of GnatBox). > > > > I'm not making the kind of forward progress I'd like to be making so I'm > > going to attempt to at least get others involved in some of the discussion > > of and the planning for things that are needed for Token Ring but are not > > specific to it. > > > > FreeBSD needs its 'dead' 802.2 LLC code cleaned up and reintegrated into > > the kernel. This buys us not only token ring but 802.3 ethenet frames as > > well, which novell uses for their IPX protocol and Microsoft uses for > > NetBEUI. > > > > Working on the 802.2 code requires no special hardware; regular old > > ethernet will do just fine. Its obviously more helpful to have a > > reference implementation (I'm using Win95 and Netware 3.12) to beat on > > during development, but passing packets between two FreeBSD boxes should > > be nearly as good. > > > > I would like to see a mailing list created to give this discussion some > > focus and an initial 'push'. There are enough people that have expressed > > an intent to do work in this area that a separate mailing list for > > coordinating our efforts is justified. > > > > I would also be interested in talking to someone with contacts inside of > > BSDi; they have token ring support for a few cards. Giving this code to > > the FreeBSD project would allow us to begin concentrating our efforts on > > writing hardware support, something BSDi would glean direct benefit from. > > > > Your comments, please. > > I've been vaguely thinking of doing something about Token Ring and > other protocols, but I haven't had time to look at it yet. It would > be nice to see a few of the less popular protocols supported, though > (another one that springs to mind is X.25). > > I can set up a mailing list if Jonathan doesn't want to do it. It might be time for a "token-ring@FreeBSD", anybody else think so? Larry Lile lile@stdio.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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