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From: james.card@ntc.nokia.com (James Card)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATM NICs
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:28:52 -0400
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In article <32352934.41C67EA6@star-gate.com>, hasty@star-gate.com 
says...
> 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).
> > 
> > Currently we have a driver for the Efficient Networks PCI ATM card.
> > It also works for the SBus Sparc version (but only on the sun4c since
> 
> curious, how much does the card cost?

The card should be around U.S. $1000.
It handles something like 1024 VCs and only VP 0.
There are two memory versions (that I know of)...

512K version and 2M version (for server apps).