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Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pedro Roque Marques)
Tue Jun 18 18:32:46 1996
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:19:26 +0100
From: Pedro Roque Marques <roque@di.fc.ul.pt>
To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606181505.LAA03324@etinc.com>
>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> writes:
Dennis> So you're saying that we should stop development of our
Dennis> ethernet bandwidth limiter (now available for FreeBSD and
Dennis> BSD/OS) that all of the linux ISPs have been asking for?
Dennis> Our current bandwidth limiter only acts on our
Dennis> hardware....
[ignored text]
Dennis> but the ethernet thing...well, do we have
Dennis> to manufacture a card now?
Interesting. How do you do an ethernet bw limiter without modifying GPLed
code ? Is it just a wrapper module that discards incoming/outgoing
frames if they exceed the apropriate rate ?
Maybe someone could fill in the details of what is expected from such
a feature since if there is demand for it and if it's dead simple i'm sure
we can make a GPL version of it....
[Dennis: could you *please* make your posts a little bit more
polite. More than half of this i'm responding to consisted of
statements that i personally believe to be inapropriate in a public
forum]
./Pedro.
