From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 15 1:56:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E67937B403; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f9F8uPT15531; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:56:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Soren Kristensen" Cc: "MurrayTaylor" , , Subject: RE: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives?? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:56:25 -0700 Message-ID: <002f01c15557$44f1d660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <3BCA9B7E.BBEC1C7D@soekris.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----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