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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:3115 comp.os.386bsd.questions:16370 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh 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 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3gq8jm$icf@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3gjqdh$ekc@clavin.uprc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Keywords: V.35 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