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FYI - HARP
Actually, the message was:
>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.
>
>--
>Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
>phk@xxxxxxxxxxx | TCP/IP since RFC 956
>FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
>Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
>
The key being "If nobody are have (sic) sufficient interest ..."
As 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 switch
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 them
that
it has no impact on my completing my "real" work, and two: the adapters we
have
here are not PC PCI based. Poul-Henning has mentioned that he's looking for
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.
Joseph Thomas
-----Original Message-----
From: Harti Brandt [mailto:brandt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:16 AM
To: Ben Wilkinson
Cc: atm@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Service Classes
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Wilkinson wrote:
BW>Hi,
BW>
BW>I am not a programmer either :( However I am interested in having these
cards run SDH!
BW>Has anyone implemented this functionality yet? Or maybe some more info on
how I go about this?
BW>
BW>Ben
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.
Note, that there was a message last week, that HARP is going to be
de-orbited in -current.
harti
BW>
BW>"Christophe PrИvotaux" wrote:
BW>>
BW>> oops I am not a programmer , I doubt I can succeed in making this work
BW>> however since the PCA200E does not support CBR it does not fit my needs
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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BW>>
BW>> > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Christophe PrИvotaux 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 based
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 over
BW>> > CP>SDH and IP MPLS over SDH hardware that already exists) , Of course
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 cards
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@xxxxxxxxxxxx, harti@xxxxxxxxxxx
BW>> >
BW>> >
BW>>
BW>> --
BW>> ===================================================================
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