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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: ISDN, SMP and Threads Date: 22 May 1997 20:36:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5m2aoq$t5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5m1qj9$4vj$1@peanuts.materna.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41474 bernd.knochenhauer@materna.de (bernd knochenhauer) wrote: > 1. Does it support SMP ? (I got dual Pentium Box) 3.0-current does, in alpha quality. The ultimate goal for FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE is to provide SMP. > 2. Is there a kernel-level thread package for FreeBSD ? No. (Not yet? I think somebody is working on it, but i'm not sure.) > 3. Does it support ISDN devices ? There's the BISDN package, but due to some dreadful copyright hassles, the BISDN folks haven't been able to release anything for almost a year now. They are currently rewriting large pieces of the package from scratch. The last official BISDN release was 0.97, and is available from ftp://ftp.muc.ditec.de/isdn/. BISDN itself only provides for raw HDLC framing. The existing PPP implementation for BISDN wasn't very bright, so i recently made a stab on a rewrite. I'm currently running the new PPP version (that is based on Serge Vakulenko's SyncPPP layer - /sys/net/if_sppp*) in private beta test, and it looks promising. As soon as i've got test results from some beta testers, i'll also put up a diff against BISDN 0.97 on the FTP server. Note that due to BISDN 0.97 being fairly old already, it requires a bit of handwork in order to get it to run on a -current system, like adjusting some header files etc. Nothing impossible however, and it at least basically works still. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)