Drivers for FORE systems cards under FreeBSD

[michael butler]

Amancio Hasty Jr writes:

> No promises over here but I am going to try to remedy the ATM situation.
> Nor I am going to state who am I going to be dealing with .

Much as I hate generalisations .. I would warn that ATM and IP apparently do
not mix well in cases where good interactive response is critical, at least
in my limited experience. I get better response over my own overworked 14k4
modem connection to the net than over a (university based) 2 megabit ATM
link.

Taking simple icmp echo (ping) as a guide to find out why, on my modem link
I get round-trip times of ~600mS to the US .. over ATM, they start at 7
seconds and take some time before dropping to a more acceptable 160mS. When
typing in a telnet session, this equates to .. leave the keyboard alone for
any period greater than one or two seconds and you're back to that 7 second
latency.

It's unusable as currently implemented for anything but bulk-haulage of
video and news. I don't know the unlying technical details but, based on
this experience, I'm not entirely sure I want to.

However, if this is an implementation specific problem, I would be very glad
to hear how it might be resolved .. it's near impossible for me to do
assignments by telecommuting these days :-(

	michael