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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: High speed serial card drivers
Date: 2 Feb 1995 09:28:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3gjqdh$ekc@clavin.uprc.com>,
LaCoursiere J. D. (Jeff) <z056716@uprc.com> wrote:
>Anyone know if there is a 1.1.5.1 driver for any high speed serial cards?
>Would like to use FreeBSD as a 56K or T1 router to ethernet...

You and everybody else! :-)

Seriously, you folks really ought to band together and do some mutually shared
development or something!  This need just comes up again and again with
the ISPs!

Whatever you guys come up with, if it's not too bad looking, we'll be more
than likely interested in folding back into FreeBSD 2.x.  Once you get
it folded back it becomes just another part of our "product" for you, so
that makes it all pretty neat and simple.  Sure, you need to fund the
development up-front, but if you split the cost of that so that it's not
too bad for any one company, then I'd say that a number of ISPs could be
getting themselves a pretty good deal!  They still didn't have to pay a
license cost for the OS source code, and they've a pretty much assured
shot of getting their code back into the product without a fuss.  Just try
negotiating something like THAT through SunSoft sometime! :-)

We're also starting to fund our own paid pool of talent for doing tasks
like this, so if such a consortium should also decide to "contract" it
through us then I'm fairly sure that something could be arranged.
I'd first have to see if there was anyone free to do such development
work, of course, and we'd have to see how serious they were about wanting
the work done and in what timeframe.  They would also have to agree to making
the work be freely redistributable as well since that's the only work we're
currently taking on.

						Jordan