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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATM NICs
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 19:01:36 +0000
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Charles Smith wrote:
> 
> 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

That's too big a question to answer here. Start by doing a Net Search on
"asyncronous transfer mode" and review some of the resulting pages. That
should point the way for further research, if you still want to.
-- 
Ken

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