Re: hfa0 PCA200E

Sorry to be vague, I was referring to the interest in development and maintaining ATM. I know there is interest in the use, I myself for instance am ;-)

Ben

Christophe Prevotaux wrote:
> 
> Lack of interest ?? I have been asking for a whole bunch of things
> if "lack of interest" means "no one to develop code" then that maybe
> true but if "lack of interest" means "no users of such products" then
> this is not true.
> 
> Of course if there is no support for ATM in FreeBSD then it is pretty
> obvious ATM users are not going to use FreeBSD for this. However I doubt
> that this can be considered as a valid reason NOT to support ATM.
> 
> Then what about MPLS , if they is no MPLS on FreeBSD there are no
> FreeBSD users using MPLS on FreeBSD , is that a valid reason not to
> implement MPLS ? I don't think so.
> 
> However I know that there are several people that are working on ATM in
> FreeBSD and NetBSD, moreover the AYAME project supports some ATM cards
> for MPLS over ATM.
> 
> I really don't think it's time to drop ATM on FreeBSD. It's like saying
> well UUCP is not used on Internet anymore these days so let's drop it.
> That is stupid since UUCP IS still used by many people and it is still a
> very good way to handle communications where there are no other
> possibilities.
> 
> On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:19:06 +0100
> Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Humm,
> >
> > Yes I am also quite interested, I thought I heard they were planning
> > not to support this in later versions due to lack of interest :(
> >
> > Ben Wilkinson
> > NewNet plc.
> >
> > Christophe Prevotaux wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I just wanted to check to see if any new things had been develloped
> > >  patched or inserted in the 4.6 Release code concerning the ATM
> > >  stack and particularly the PCA200E driver
> > >
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