[rescue] S-bus FDDI cards and NetBSD drivers, again.....

[Big Endian]

>[ On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:04:52 (-0500), Brian Hechinger wrote: ]
>>  Subject: Re: [rescue] IPFILTER woes
>>
>>  On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:44:57PM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
>>  > Yeah, don't run your firewall on Slowlaris.
>>  > run it on OpenBSD or NetBSD if you're good at tightening a Box up.
>>
>>  this was my first choice.  there is one serious flaw with this 
>>though.  there
>>  is to this day, no SBus FDDI support in anything but Solaris.  so i have no
>>  choice but to run Solaris on this machine.  and besides, Solaris is not that
>>  terrible a thing.  really.
>
>I've offered to work on a driver (initially for NetBSD) if someone ships
>me a card I can keep (and preferrably with the right cables to plug it
>into my FDDI-ready DECswitch 900EF)....  :-)
>
>Just "finger woods at most.weird.com" for my mailing address!  ;-)
>
>Of course I'll need to find hardware docs for said card (and its chip if
>there's not already a compatible low-level chip driver), and having a
>CDDI media converter would be nice too as I've got some PCI CDDI cards
>that should also interface (and which already have NetBSD drivers).

This has been rehashed several times.  The challenge to writting 
drivers for the SBUS fddi boards is writing a complete SMT 
implementation as there isn't any in hardware.  I belive the hardware 
it self is relatively well documented and should be easy to write 
drivers for.

daniel
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