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Re: FYI - HARP
And I can offer Interphase 5575.
-alex
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> I can loan a pca/200e to anyone doing legitimate work on harp/hfa.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Joe Thomas wrote:
>
> >
> > 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 Prévotaux" 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 Prévotaux 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>> ===================================================================
> > BW>> Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@xxxxxxxxxx
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> >
> > --
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