Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:56:25 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Soren Kristensen" <soren@soekris.com> Cc: "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: <002f01c15557$44f1d660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3BCA9B7E.BBEC1C7D@soekris.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Soren Kristensen [mailto:soren@soekris.com] >Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 1:17 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: MurrayTaylor; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; >freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based >alternatives?? > > >Hi Everybody, > >I've been following the sync serial board discussion a little, and it >seems like that there's no source for inexpensive sync serial boards >with FreeBSD, or boards with documentation to make a driver, or from >companies with a good policy towards open source and/or FreeBSD.... > >The only one close seems to be the cronyx, they seems to have full >source code, but their boards is not easily available in the US, or >available with T1 interfaces. > >So maybe I should just make one, and sell for cheap, I need them anyway >for my small boxes (see http://www.soekris.com).... The most common chip >for the PCI bus, the 4 channel Infinion DSCC4 PEB20534 (used by cronyx >and others...) cost around $60 in small volume, so the basic 2 ch board >would probably go for around $250 qty 1. Boards with more channels or >integrated T1/E1 phys will be a little higher. > >FreeBSd drivers should be relatively easy, t.ex based on the cronyx >drivers, they're even netgraph enabled.... > >I would then be happy to supply hardware and documentation to somebody >that could do and maintain the drivers. > An interesting proposition. However, you might find it even easier to do a Hitachi HD64570-based board. It should be much easier to modify the sr driver to work with it than to write a new one from scratch. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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