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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:59:36 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com>
Cc:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, MurrayTaylor <MurrayTaylor@bytecraftsystems.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives?? 
Message-ID:  <46853.1003139976@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:51:50 PDT." <3BCAB1B6.FD33B9BA@soekris.com> 

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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...

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