On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:55:17 -0700 Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net> alleged:
Take a look someday in the BSD/OS sources to find out who wrote RISCOM and ethernet drivers and PPP stack for it :)
Yeah I know :-) Although I know that from history and not the current 2.1 sources. You don't fancy doing a NetBSD driver ? ;-)
Unfortunately you're comparing apples and elephants. ICM routers were (and still are) the most convolutedly configured and most overtaxed routers in the universe. Running a week-old revision of cisco code, at that, because previous releases had bugs which made it even less useful.
Well we were plugged into SL-DC-2 then SL-DC-14, not sure about the latter, but yeah I remember the situation at the time. It was fun! :-)
INSC had a big staffing problem -- as soon as a new person learned stuff he's leaving for a salary two times higher, and for a much less stressful environment. Sprint management was never able to recognize the fact that Internet backbone skills is a seller's market.
Yah, I wish someone would point that out to ISP's in the UK ;-) Cheers, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. E A S Y N E T G R O U P P L C neil@EASYNET.NET NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>