Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:32:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Larry S. Lile" <lile@stdio.com> To: aron@cs.rice.edu Cc: freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM token ring Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980730091328.16565A-100000@heathers.stdio.com> In-Reply-To: <199807292153.RAA30406@jacinto.watson.ibm.com>
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The driver is very near completion but I have gotten frustrated with it of late. Currently the driver will accept packets, un-roll packets, arp, and pass off to the upper layers. On the other side of the street it will roll the packets from the upper layers, arp and just won't put the packets back on the wire. I am having problems with interrupts and IF_DEQUEUE. You are welcome to help finish the driver :) I have worked on it by myself for so long I am about ready to give up on the IBM cards and move on to a different card (3com, Olicom, etc) that isn't so interrupt intensive and quirky. I started this insanity when I was working for IBM Global Services and in much the same networking position as you, token ring everywhere but no driver. Anyway the driver, arp and tcpdump hacks are at http://anarchy.stdio.com if you want to take a look. Larry Lile lile@stdio.com On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 aron@watson.ibm.com wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently working at one of the IBM Research labs. I planned to use > FreeBSD for both my desktop machine as well as for research purposes. > Unfortunately, IBM uses the IBM Token Ring for networking at this site - the > driver for this is not incorporated in FreeBSD. Linux on the other hand > incorporates this driver (its called ibmtr in Linux). Others in the lab are > also constrained by this to use Linux instead of FreeBSD. Will it be possible > to incorporate this driver in FreeBSD in future releases. Thanks, > > > > - Mohit Aron > aron@watson.ibm.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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