Re: The fate of ngatm

On 28/4/17 2:00 am, Brooks Davis wrote:
> As previous threatened, I've removed support for NATM (as well as a
> remarkable number of remnants of the old ATM framework).  One piece
> that still remains is the ngatm framework in netgraph.  This includes
> the ng_ccatm(4), ng_sscfu(4), ng_sscop(4), and ng_uni(4) nodes.
>
> These don't attach to physical interfaces and didn't depend on the NATM
> interface code so I left them alone in the first cut.  My question
> is, are they useful without physical interfaces?  If so, keeping them
> doesn't appear to have a high support burden.  If not, we should remove
> them.
>
> -- Brooks

I don't know if people are using these now, but at one stage people 
were using them to decode/encode atm higher level protocols over an 
ethernet transport to implement a PPPoA infrastructure.


No idea if it's still being used .

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