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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ATM NIC support ? Date: 25 Mar 1997 17:30:38 -0600 Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5h9n6u$i2a@plains.nodak.edu> References: <01bc35c1$24f75340$214f96cd@reality> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37711 In article <01bc35c1$24f75340$214f96cd@reality>, Kurt Schafer <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> wrote: >Any comments on FreeBSD's support for any ATM NIC's ? Back in early 1996, there was a rumor of a commerical Zeitnet driver, but I never heard more about it. There are a couple research projects have running. For example, the Applied Research Lab (ARL) of Washington University have support (ftp://dworkin.wustl.edu/dist/bsd/bsdatm1.4.tar.gz) for Efficient Network's PCI ATM 155Mbps adapter and now support the Adaptec 590x series of PCI ATM host adaptors. I thought some wrote a while back the DEC adapter also ported somewhere for this project. The Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc under its participation in MAGIC, (http://www.msci.magic.net) is hoping to release a FreeBSD version of their Host ATM Research Platform (HARP) software. They said in Feb, that the have the above software running under FreeBSD 2.2 with FORE PCA200E adapters and are thinking of also supporting Efficient adapters. I do not know if you could plug in one of these adapters/stacks and talk to other adpaters on other machines running other stacks. I have been attempting to find time to finish my IDT NICStAR adapter driver which I would like to plug into one of the above stacks. I can send/recieve PDU/cells that I manually generated for testing purposes and we use it for a ATM link watcher with BPF routines, but I definately need a stack for the driver to do anything productive. The card is cheap, but requires a lot of hand holding by the CPU (I am at 2000 lines of code if I take out the diagnostic code), I haven't decided if it is a good card or not. there is a FreeBSD ATM mailing list (though it is very inactive). Join by: $ echo "subscribe freebsd-atm" | mail majordomo@freebsd.org --mark.