cvs commit: src/contrib/bsnmp - Imported sources

[Harti Brandt]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

BMS>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:55:22PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
BMS>> The official HARP isn't maintained anymore. Our HARP is maintained very
BMS>> weakly. It was broken for longer amounts of time because no committer had
BMS>> the interest/equipment/knowledge to work on it. People were forced to
BMS>
BMS>This situation may change if I obtain my idt(4) card and am able to use it
BMS>as a viable alternative to a 'black box' DSL router... I am also trying
BMS>to get ueagle(4) to work with maintainer's help on my hardware, that is
BMS>another HARP client.

I wonder what is it that you need from HARP. All DSL variantes I have
looked up so far use an PVC and either IP over ATM, PPP over ATM or PPPoE
over ATM. The first variant is easy to configure once you know the PVC:

ifconfig hatm0 <IP-address>
atmconfig natm add <peer-IP-address> hatm0 0 <pvc> llc/snap

That's it. As for PPP I tried to contact Brian Somers because I want to
write a handbook chapter on setting up PPP servers and client for ATM, but
he seems very busy. Basically ppp has already support for netgraph, so
setting up PPP over ATM is a matter of

ifconfig hatm0 up
kldload ng_atm
ppp ...

For all of this you need nothing from the HARP stack. You just need a
driver for your ATM card. For all ATM cards except the IDT77211 we have
already non-HARP drivers (en, fatm, hatm, patm) that can do the above. The
driver for the IDT77201/211 is almost ready.

I plan to craft a handbook chapter on ATM as soon as possible (given
someone will help me to do the markup).

harti
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