From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 27 09:41:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA26763 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 09:41:06 -0700 Received: from mail.htp.com (mail.htp.com [199.171.4.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA26757 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 09:41:04 -0700 Received: from et.htp.com (et.htp.com [199.171.4.228]) by mail.htp.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id MAA19301; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 12:41:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 12:41:18 -0400 Message-Id: <199508271641.MAA19301@mail.htp.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.htp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Network Coordinator From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Networking [not completely FreeBSD related] Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >This question isn't completely FreeBSD related, but I have been told its >impossible, so I figure I could use FreeBSD to solve it. :-) > >A standard T-1 connection, long before the internet was popularized, was >just a datapipe between two points. No packets, no IP addresses, no >nothing. Particularly in the voice-multiplexing area. > >Nowadays, T-1 connections are used very differently. > T1's are the same as they have always been. Most people are only familiar with the environment in which they currently play in.... >Can anyone think of a way, or know of an existing solution, that can >somehow emulate an old T-1 style datapipe on an IP network. Most likely >this would be ether. I would really prefer a solution that didn't involve >any heavy digitization for a video or a voice stream, just something like >connecting a TSU to a V.35 jack connected to a FreeBSD machine, run >something on it, route it across the network, and have a similar machine >reconstitute the original input. > >Its bizarre, I know. If you have any ideas, I would REALLY appreciate >anything. > Its not bizarre. You can do that with our T1 product. If you don't "ifconfig" it its just an independent interface that can be called with our API either from within the kernel or from user space. Dennis