From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 3: 0: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B899937B410; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9F9xaa46855; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:59:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Soren Kristensen Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , MurrayTaylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives?? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:51:50 PDT." <3BCAB1B6.FD33B9BA@soekris.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:59:36 +0200 Message-ID: <46853.1003139976@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3BCAB1B6.FD33B9BA@soekris.com>, Soren Kristensen writes: >The PEB20321 (Munich32) supported in that driver is a channelized >version, that not really what people are asking for.... It's also low >speed, and support only one interface if used unchannelized. One one wire you have only one "circuit" if unchannelized. There is a "bigger brother" MUNIC128X now which is suitable for an 4 port card. >I don't >remember about the Conexant chip, but I think it's channelized too. Both the Munich and Connexant can run channelized or unchannelized. >Paul, do you know how close the PEB20321 and PEB20534 are from a >programming point if view ? But the FALC phy might be good for the T1/E1 >versions. > >I have look around for sync serial controllers, but keep comming back to >the PEB20534, I think that the best chip available for the job. I don't know how similar they are, either way, all the work on the if_mn and musycc drivers were in the framers and clocking. The HDLC is just a piece of cake... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message