On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >As I mentioned above, we CAN license the driver code and the DDK for
> >development. This means that you could produce FreeBSD drivers which we
> >could then distribute in a binary form under a free end-user license.
> >
>
> >Frankly this is the only way I can see that FreeBSD drivers for the 5xx
> >series would ever come about. Porting SAND over, while having >advantages
> >of long term support, is just overkill for this, besides which it's unlikely
> >you will get a FreeBSD developer to work on GPL code.
>
> >This would end up putting a WANic 5xx driver into the same status as the
> >drivers for the Emerging Technologies, or Sangoma sync cards, which both
> >come
> >with binary-only FreeBSD drivers. It would actually have a leg up over
> >those drivers because it would have Netgraph hooks and I believe that the
> >Sangoma drivers don't (but I've never worked with the Sangoma cards so I
> >don't know for certain)
>
> The concept that "netgraph hooks" are a "leg up" on say, ETs drivers that
> have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging
> support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit
> entertaining. Unless you need to do some convoluted encapsulation netgraph
> is, aside from being appallingly non-standard to anything else in the market,
> not much of an "advantage", and its a poster child for the trade off of
> "flexibility" versus performance.
Netgraph is a prototyping tool, which has enough performance to be useful
in non-performance-critical applications. (such as all sync interfaces).
It is not designed for gigabit interfaces etc.
>
> Lets face it. If you were going to sit down and design an interface for frame
> relay, multi-protocol support, etc, you'd have to be smoking something pretty
> strong to come up with netgraph. But its free and there is source, so it
> must be great!
You are entitled to your opinion. I find it humourous but, that's just my
opinion :-)
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