Future of netnatm: looking for testers

[Harti Brandt]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Robert Watson wrote:

RW>
RW>On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
RW>
RW>> I would request two things:
RW>> 
RW>> 1) the extra couple of months; this will not prevent the evitable removal
RW>>   yet only defer it.
RW>
RW>Sounds good to me -- my goal is not to remove NETNATM, rather, the remove
RW>code that doesn't compile or work.  I'm happy to sit on this for a while and
RW>see if things improve; fixing the former is great, fixing the latter would be
RW>even better :-).
RW>
RW>(I wonder if Harti is in a situation to test any of this still?)

I have the equipment, but catastrophically no time. If there were a 
developer somewhere around the corner here, I could give him a couple of 
ATM cards and even a switch.

sorry,
harti

RW>> 
RW>> 2) If anyone of you is using (or want to be able to (continue to) use) NATM
RW>>   or can test things, I re-enabled it with most of the code in HEAD and
RW>>   the patch is available for 8,x as well but need to work with somoene
RW>>   to make sure it'll really work.  I am willing to spend more time on it
RW>>   if you send me an email.
RW>> 
RW>> Best Regards,
RW>> Bjoern
RW>> 
RW>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
RW>> > Author: bz
RW>> > Date: Wed Dec 15 22:58:45 2010
RW>> > New Revision: 216466
RW>> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216466
RW>> > 
RW>> > Log:
RW>> >  Bring back (most of) NATM to avoid further bitrot after r186119.
RW>> >  Keep three lines disabled which I am unsure if they had been used at
RW>> > all.
RW>> >  This will allow us to seek testers and possibly bring it all back.
RW>> 
RW>> If you have the ability to test (on 8.x or HEAD) or are using NATM,
RW>> please get in contact with me.
RW>> 
RW>> 
RW>> 
RW>> >  Discussed with:      rwatson
RW>> >  MFC after:   7 weeks
RW>> > 
RW>> > Modified:
RW>> >  head/sys/conf/NOTES
RW>> >  head/sys/netinet/if_atm.c
RW>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
RW>> 
RW>> -- 
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