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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATM NICs Date: 10 Sep 1996 16:15:12 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 23 Message-ID: <51446g$833@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <MPG.c968e4b64c0acd7989680@netnews.ntc.nokia.com> <50q98v$fvb@dworkin.wustl.edu> <32321B46.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <32336F13.7017@tidepool.com> <3234C769.5025@OntheNet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: Tony Griffiths's message of Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:42:01 +1000 [Tony Griffiths] | The fact that ATM is CONS means that it doesn't work too well with | TCP/IP (CLNS), so they came up with LANE (LAN Emulation!!!) to make | ethernet-type broadcast/multicast packets work in a point-to-point ATM | network. Actually TCP/IP works just fine over ATM as long as you use PVCs and CBR, and don't have any cell loss :-) (in which case you're really using ATM as a glorified point to point serial link). | What is really needed is TCP0/2 (ala OSI's TP0/2)... eg. TCP over a CONS | network. Then we wouldn't need LANE or IP Switching. Just open up an | ATM VC between the two hosts that want to talk to each other and spit | data! It's already been suggested - search for TUNIC on the comp.dcom.cell-relay site: http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/ We're now getting rather far away from FreeBSD, though... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no