hamachi on offer

hamachi on offer

[Andi Kleen]

Hi,

I found an old hamachi (Packet Engines GNIC II) PCI GigE card while
going through old junk. 

That was one of the first Gigabit drivers in Linux (hamachi.c), but 
probably hasn't seen much use in the last years and it's unclear if the 
driver still works.

If anyone is interested in maintaining the driver I would be willing to 
ship the card for free to them. The card is still a quite respectable Gigabit
Ethernet card.

The main drawback is that it has a fiber PHY, not copper, so one would 
need a suitable fiber switch or run it loopback with another fiber card.

I believe documentation is also still available.

Please only serious offers if you want to actually work with the code.

Thanks,
-Andi

Re: hamachi on offer

[Benjamin LaHaise]

Hi Andi,

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:51:25AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found an old hamachi (Packet Engines GNIC II) PCI GigE card while
> going through old junk. 
..
> Please only serious offers if you want to actually work with the code.

I have a fibre NatSemi DP83820 gige that should interoperate with this, and 
which needs testing as well.  I'd be willing to update and test the two 
drivers to the point of getting them working.  I also have access to media 
convertors, plus a few reasons to set up an automated test suite (more to 
test the media convertors, but testing the nics would be a beneficial side 
effect).  If someone else wants to maintain this longer term, I'd be 
willing to pass along the other fibre nic and some media convertors to 
help out.

		-ben