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From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm@transactionware.com>
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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:39:22 +1000
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Subject: RE: WAN cards: Sangoma vs. Tahoe group
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm looking using either Sangoma cards or the Tahoe Group cards for
> > connections to a frame relay network (Telstra in Australia, 
> for what it's
> > worth).
> > 
> > I'm comparing the Sangoma A101-U to the Tahoe 971 and the 
> Sangoma S5141 to
> > the Tahoe 931.
> > 
> >>From looking at the archives, people seem generally happy 
> with Sangoma, but
> > I can't find much on the Tahoe cards and FreeBSD.  The 
> software for the
> > Tahoe cards is significantly simpler than the Sangoma Wanpipe stuff.
> > 
> > What are the general experiences of these cards?  Is anyone 
> actually using
> > the Tahoe cards?
> 
> If you can get a dumb sync card that runs with the sr or ar drivers
> then FreeBSD has built in frame relay code.

Yes, I'd like to use the netgraph frame relay code.

The Tahoe 931 sync card seems to be about half the price of the other dumb
sync cards I could find (eg. Digi, don't have any pricing on the WANic
card).  I'll take a closer look at what hardware is around.

Regards,

Jan Mikkelsen
janm@transactionware.com