FrameRelay support for cx/ctau adapters

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 04:31:08PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
D> GS> FreeBSD has support for FR with help of nodes ng_frame_relay and ng_lmi. This
D> GS> support is hardware independent. And it works perfectly with cronyx adapters.
D> GS> What is a reason for merging hardware specific support from old cronyx driver into
D> GS> base system?
D> 
D> Short answer: keep POLA.
D> 
D> Longer answer: to keep 4.x systems with _existing_ fr setup up to date,
D> non-intuitive and non-atomic patches are now required.
D> 
D> BTW: we have more than one perfectly (for particular meaning of 'perfect', os
D> course ;-) working firewall systems, more than on (3) ppp inplementations, and
D> more than one software raid implementation. I do not see any harm in existing
D> another (working!) implementation for fr then, especially when it does so
D> little bloat to the code base.

  From the point of FreeBSD cronyx driver appeared 1 month ago, and was not
supported before.

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