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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!avg From: avg@sprintlink.net (Vadim Antonov) Newsgroups: relcom.tcpip,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: V.35 driver for 386bsd/BSDI Date: 21 Nov 1993 05:18:01 GMT Organization: Sprint Internetworking Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2cmtm9$b7h@news.sprintlink.net> References: <2cmco9$e86@gazpacho.wariat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.sprintlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] In <2cmco9$e86@gazpacho.wariat.org>, Dimitry A. Sazonov (dima@wariat.org) wrote: : Cool, and is it the same driver in BSDI and FreeBSD? is it available? : (I mean FreeBSD version of the driver?) Most likely not. I wrote the driver when i was a BSD Inc. employee, thus BSD Inc. owns it. I think people at DEMOS ported it for their internal use (they have a BSD/386 license). It definitely is not in public domain. [As a side note -- BSD/386 has new interface for point-to-point packet drivers which allows multiple link-level protocols (currently supported protocols are PPP and cisco HDLC encapsulation), so a BSD/386 driver cannot be simply added to NetBSD; some redesign is required]. However, SDL Communications (the RISCom boards manufacturer) is very friendly and open and they're willing to provide detailed technical documentation on their devices and i do not think it's too hard to write similar driver for NetBSD. --vadim PS I do not work for BSD Inc. now.