From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 13 11:25:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA17368 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus (pm3-p3.tfs.net [206.154.183.195]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17363 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA06722; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:24:50 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199704131824.NAA06722@argus> Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:24:46 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@tfs.net In-Reply-To: <16474.860906973@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 12, 97 09:49:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > > may be.. but there are many many many hams around the world using > > AX.25 for packet radio operation... i see uses for such a driver > > under FreeBSD... The newest Linux kernels have recently realized the > > numbers and have done such a driver... > > Well, OK. So you're Mr. FreeBSD X.25 now? ;-) I guess so :^) I got burned out on building internet companies controlled by short-sighted people with the intelligence of a garden slug... Maybe I'll change my mind on that if I can find some investors serious about being #1, and get a nice share for the effort, but until then... > Seriously, the biggest reason things "rot" in FreeBSD is that nobody > is actively maintaining them. If you want to take on X.25 both > now and for the forseeable future, I see no problem with resurrecting > it. You got it.. er, I guess I got it :^) My initial focus will be on AX.25, given that I have the facilities to test the implimentation myself, as well as do a little bit of FreeBSD public relations... KC5VDJ>BEACON,R0MIR*: :FreeBSD r0X Da W3rLd!@# [Watch for my beacon being relayed by a Space Station near you] :^) Muhahahahahahah!@#@# Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2-meter, 70cm - KPC-3 Plus packet capable