Hi, I saw some posts to the cvs-all mailing list recently, giving Harti Brandt a hard time for importing bsnmp to the FreeBSD source tree, so I thought I would post this. :)
I recently used Netgraph-ATM as part of my masters thesis at Harvard Extension School, which looked at ATM, CORBA, and network management. My thesis is online at: http://crodrigues.org/thesis_web/ Netgraph-ATM played a big part in my thesis, and Harti was VERY helpful. Harti even extended certain ATM device drivers with sysctl's to get at lower-level register information which allowed me to look at SONET alarm information. The main reason I started using FreeBSD was because of Harti's active maintenance of Netgraph-ATM, versus the less-maintained ATM implementation under Linux. While working on my thesis, I was so impressed with FreeBSD that I switched my home systems over to it, and am still using it, even though my thesis is done. :) I realize that 99% of people out there don't use or care about ATM and bsnmp being in the FreeBSD source tree , but I would just say: - the stability of a lot of Netgraph ATM stuff improved when it got into the tree, since I didn't need to get private patches from Harti - I benefited a lot from it being in the tree (a bit selfish to say, but true) I would like to thank Harti for his hard work on Netgraph-ATM, and all of the FreeBSD committers for producing a great OS and a great piece of software that let me get my work done!! -- Craig Rodrigues http://crodrigues.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
