[3373] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Fri Jun 21 01:43:09 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: miquels@drinkel.cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:10:26 +0200 (MET DST)
In article <m0uWUbE-0005FaC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> But what I am saying is the opposite. The low level board driver can
>> be binary only since that is an extension of the firmware (or lack of)
>> for the card. While the "value-added" kernel enhancements should require
>> source. I know this will never happen with ET. But *new* companies can
>> plan from the start to make a profit and be free.
>
>A free bandwidth limiter is on the way anyway so I'd relax about that. Its
>needed to support IP multicast properly so you can declare a multicast path
>to have a given bandwidth
Can you eleborate on this? This was discussed before on this list
but I didn't know someone was already working on it. We might need
this in the forseeable future (to sell bandwidth limited web services)
and I was thinking about implementing it myself. I would be glad to
help with testing/coding.
Mike.
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