So are there any intresting changes one can make to the acenic?  I've got
one, mostly unused right now.  I've been told it is mostly a pair or R5ks
hooked back to back.  Would anyone have a recommendation for a replacement
to the 3cr990?
	Nick

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> 
> nick@snowman.net writes:
>  > Erm, that is going to be a problem.  Crypto benifits more from open source
>  > than any other market segment, and binary only drivers for linux are not
>  > the way to go.  I guess I need to get rid of my 5-10 3cr990s and replace
>  > them with someone else's product?
> 
> Many of us on the networking developer team believe that making the
> programming interface to the cpus on the Tigon3 is the biggest mistake
> 3com could ever make.
> 
> What made the Acenic so ubiquitous and interesting was that you could
> program the firmware on the board to do whatever you like.  They even
> provided an entire firmware developer kit so you could hack on it.
> 
> So many useful projects came from this capability.
> 
> I feel dirty working on the Tigon3 driver for 2.4.x because of this.
> 
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
> 

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