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In-Reply-To: <19990805181609.H13504@caamora.com.au> from jonathan michaels at "Aug 5, 1999 06:16:09 pm"
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 10:44:08 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: brian@FreeBSD.org.uk (Brian Somers), a.bob@xtra.co.nz (kit),
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jonathan michaels writes:
> can any of what we have been discussing be applied to frame 
> relay. i've been reading up on isdn and frame relay. here in 
> australia (my part ok) frame relay is significanly cheaper than 
> isdn services and from what the telco techies tell me the 
> implementation is far more reliable (dropout rates and overal 
> link stability and throughput).
> 
> is it possible to run frame relay over a freebsd based hardware 
> mix (computer+serial card+modem+ppp). sorry, if i got it all 
> base over apex i still find some (most) of this networking a 
> triffle confusing. 

Check out netgraph, which includes frame relay support.
The patches are probably out of data though. You also must
use the mpd port instead of ppp.

  ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html

-Archie

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