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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.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.wco.com!news From: Charles Smith <shadow1@tidepool.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATM NICs Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:12:51 -0700 Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32336F13.7017@tidepool.com> References: <MPG.c968e4b64c0acd7989680@netnews.ntc.nokia.com> <50q98v$fvb@dworkin.wustl.edu> <32321B46.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts18.tidepool.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Chuck Cranor wrote: > > Yes. The NetBSD and OpenBSD ATM stuff should also work under FreeBSD. > > At least I had ported it to FreeBSD a few months ago and submitted it for > > inclusion in FreeBSD (but no one ever got back around to doing it so > > I guess there is no interest in it from the FreeBSD front, oh well). > > There's interest, please don't get the impression that total apathy is > what's currently standing in the way there. It's just time, or lack > thereof, which has us chasing only the issues of highest import right > now. ATM, while definitely something for the future, is not quite such > a high priority need right now so it's not as far up on the TODO list > as, say, getting the 4.4 Lite2 merge finished, finishing devfs or going > to a new ISA configuration mechanism. All of us in the core team are > actively seeking an effective cloning technology. :-) > -- > - Jordan Hubbard > President, FreeBSD Project I have been reading somethings about ATM. What is ATM, and where could I find more info about it. Does it run under a stand phone line, or is it via coxal cable? Thanks. -Charles Smith